Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia
Generally, organization experiences stress and difficulties in dealing with change. However, introducing and coping with change is inevitable in today’s global competition. Any organizational change may encounter many difficulties and challenges, especially when the change is actually executed. One...
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| author | Al Oufi, Ghazi H. Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim Johari, Husna |
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| description | Generally, organization experiences stress and difficulties in dealing with change. However, introducing and coping with change is inevitable in today’s global competition. Any organizational change may encounter many difficulties and challenges, especially when the change is actually executed. One of the challenges is due to employees’ resistance. Some of the resistance are logical and supported with rational reasons, but in some other cases the change is turndown with irrational justifications. This present paper provides review on employees’ reactions toward organizational changes. A special focus was made to
highlight two types of reactions, which are: (1) passive and (2) active resistance. This paper also highlights prominent reasons why the employees resist and recommends steps to be taken to minimize negative effects while undertaking any organizational change process. |
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| spelling | uum-25812016-04-26T01:55:49Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2581/ Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia Al Oufi, Ghazi H. Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim Johari, Husna HD28 Management. Industrial Management Generally, organization experiences stress and difficulties in dealing with change. However, introducing and coping with change is inevitable in today’s global competition. Any organizational change may encounter many difficulties and challenges, especially when the change is actually executed. One of the challenges is due to employees’ resistance. Some of the resistance are logical and supported with rational reasons, but in some other cases the change is turndown with irrational justifications. This present paper provides review on employees’ reactions toward organizational changes. A special focus was made to highlight two types of reactions, which are: (1) passive and (2) active resistance. This paper also highlights prominent reasons why the employees resist and recommends steps to be taken to minimize negative effects while undertaking any organizational change process. 2008 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2581/1/Pages_from_NHRM_proceedings_2008_160708-3_01.pdf Al Oufi, Ghazi H. and Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim and Johari, Husna (2008) Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia. In: The 4th National Human Resource Management Conference 2008, 17-19 August 2008 , Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Al Oufi, Ghazi H. Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim Johari, Husna Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia |
| title | Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia |
| title_full | Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia |
| title_fullStr | Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia |
| title_short | Organizational change resistance: A review of employees’ reactions in Rabigh Refinery in Saudi Arabia |
| title_sort | organizational change resistance a review of employees reactions in rabigh refinery in saudi arabia |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2581/1/Pages_from_NHRM_proceedings_2008_160708-3_01.pdf |
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