Islamic University- Gaza Dean of Postgraduates Studies Faculty of Commerce Business Administration Department The Relationship between Leader-Member Exchange and Resistance to Change in Organizations: A case study on Mercy Corps (INGO) By Hazar Jaber Supervisor Dr. Sami Abou-Al-Ross A dissertation plan submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration Dec 2014 * Introduction Many research studies have shown that leaders
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University Providence, Rhode Island Feinstein Graduate School Managing Resistance to Change in Leadership Individual Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MBA Degree Course: MGMT 5800 Effective Leadership Dr. Ron A. DiBattista Maheshwari Vansadia January 7, 2013 Summary In today's continuously changing environment organizations are subject to multiple changes that can be related to the organization's strategy, its structure, the
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mandates. Because resistance is a major factor in reform failure, it is crucial for principals to discover why teachers resist change (National Association of Secondary School Principals, May 2009). Identifying the Reason for Resistance Resistance to reform or change can happen for many different reasons. The most common misperception on resistance is that the education simply does not want to change. However, this is the exception, not the rule. Resistance to change can take on many different
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Implementing Change Cha’Ron Winston HCS/475 November 5, 2012 Instructor Shelly Uhrig Implementing Change Implementing change within health care organizations can be challenging. All hospital staff must engage in the implementation of change to produce better patient outcomes. Change has to be supported from the highest level of management to encourage the staff to be positive about the changes that are about to occur. Health care organizations must promote change focusing on improving
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Chiung-Hui, H., & Ing-Chung, H. (2009). RESISTANCE TO CHANGE: THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL INTERVENTION AND CHARACTERISTIC. Review Of Business Research, 9(1), 110-114. In this study, the authors highlight the perceptions of change agents’ in regards to employee resistance. Research in this area specifically is quite scarce because previous research has focused on recognizing resistance as a having a significant effect on organization change outcomes. The purpose of this study is to understand
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The various roles of managers, and individuals in the change process The change process is a process which changes the state of things, or which results in change in an organization. Managers have various roles in the change process as well do individual employees. Managers have a well developed and unique relationship with the individual employees that are impacted by change. They are also the preferred sender of messages about change. Individual employee’s utilization rate, proficiency,
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Risistance to change MGT/426 September 9, 2014 Heidi Roberts Change is a expected process, it occurs every day whether it is accepted or not. External and internal factors can create a need for change these include but not limited to: competition, technology, the need for growth, improve processes, and governmental regulations. This paper we will take a look at resistance to change and what can be done to combat the resistance while still allowing employees to express their ideas and individualism
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genetic and heritable epigenetic changes drive the evolutionary rate of cancer progression and drug resistance. We discuss the ways in which nonheritable aspects of cellular variability may significantly increase evolutionary rate. Nonheritable variability arises by stochastic fluctuations in cells and by physiological responses of cells to the environment. New approaches to drug design may be required to control nonheritable variability and the evolution of resistance to chemotherapy. Cancer progression
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Resistance to change Organization Change can be defined as an influence where a company or an organization moves away from the normal state and schedules towards better goals in order to increase its effectiveness and also keep up with the changing markets and technologies(Donaldson, 1996). During the change process in the organization, resistance is always expected from various teams and individuals which include the organizational level, the group level and also the individual level. Perren
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Change in almost any aspect of a business enterprise’s operation can be met resistance. Nowadays, changing in business circumstances requires managers to take preventive action aimed at stabilizing the enterprise and resolve conflicts that may threaten the enterprise’s future. Managers will be acting as change agent and responsible for managing the organizational change process. Change agents can be a manager within the organization, but could be a non-manager such as outside consultant who has objective
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