High risk strategies

Question 1

High-risk strategies to overcome employee resistance

Answer 1

• Threat
• Manipulation

Question 2

Threat

Answer 2

Involves forcing employees to follow a proposed change by stating that they may or will face consequences if they fail to do so

Question 3

Manipulation

Answer 3

This involves not telling all the facts or altering them so that the employees don’t have a clear understanding of how it will affect them, or the other consequences

Question 4

Strengths of high-risk strategies

Answer 4

More likely to work in the short term as employees are afraid of the consequences if they don’t change

Question 5

Weaknesses of high-risk strategies

Answer 5

Unlikely to work in the long term as employees will either stop caring, or being afraid, or will just leave.