Reader& Head i/c, Department of Commerce, Sir Theagaraya College, Chennai, India
Online published on 11 September, 2015.
Man's environment is quite dynamic. This will disturb the equilibrium of his team and force him to make adjustments. Man's response to change depends upon his attitudes and behaviour. Even though people react individually and differently to the changes, they unite through social actions at times in order to make uniform response, like slowdown and walk out. Employees tend to resist change because it upsets their patterns of adjustment and even threatens their security. Their resistance is primarily to the formal and informal social adjustments that they must make rather than to the technical aspects of the change. Hence the management overcomes the resistance to change by altering environment, perceptions and value systems surrounding changes. It also uses group forces to support change.