Driving and restraining force

Question 1

Define driving forces

Answer 1

Forces that initiate and support change within a business.

eg- competitors

Question 2

What is mangers affect as a driving force?

Answer 2

Are strong leaders who can help drive the business towards the change.

Question 3

What is competitors affect as a driving force?

Answer 3

Can drive a business to change their operations in order to gain a competitve advantage.

Question 4

What is social attitudes affect as a drive force?

Answer 4

If a business doesn’t change to suit the trends of their consumers, they will fall behind leading to business failure.

Question 5

Define restraining forces

Answer 5

The forces that work against a proposed change within a business.
Eg- time

Question 6

What are employees affect as a restraining force?

Answer 6

-They may fear change as they will have to develop new skills and adapt to new procedures (frustration and confusion)

Question 7

What is times affect as a restraining force?

Answer 7

-If it occurs quickly businesses may fall behind and spend large sums of money to catch up to trends.

Question 8

What is financial considerations affect as a restraining force?

Answer 8

Can be very expensive for businesses to change their operations so they need to weigh up the pros and cons of the change.