¶ … Human Resource Executives:
Understanding the dynamics of change has become increasingly significant to organizations due to the trend of human resource professionals to step into the role of change leaders. In addition to being considered as either fast or slow, change is usually earnestly approved or stubbornly opposed in many organizations. Currently, the three distinct dynamics of change that researchers have focused on are resistance, readiness and developing and sustaining momentum. The failed attempts at organizational change have always been attributed to the human factors in resistance to change. These factors basically incorporate a series of behaviors from passive resistance to active or even aggressive resistance. While resistance to change is commonly associated with individual resistance, it's believed that this resistance rarely occurs.
With this kind of belief, the barriers to organizational change are always attributed to the structure of the organization, performance appraisal or compensation system that are not in accordance with the desired new behavior...
In this case, the observation moves from individuals to the entire organizational system within which the change is taking place. Moreover, the human factors that contribute to resistance to change are those behaviors that are not in line with the attempts of the change agent to create change.
To understand and deal with human factors that result in resistance to change, human resource executives need to employ several strategies. First, these executives need to think beyond resistance in order to address the particular reasons for the resistance like loss of self-efficacy and control. Secondly, these executives should create and promote readiness and momentum in order to influence the change perceptions of individuals. Thirdly, managing the social energy of change is a strategy that enables the executives to move beyond the message and timing of events.
HR Professionals and Change Management Capabilities:
The attempts of human resource professionals to significantly drive organizational change have been inadequate though they have increased…
