Restraining forces Flashcards
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What is a restraining force?
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Restraining forces are those that work against a proposed change. Restraining forces make it difficult for the business to implement change successfully
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Restraining forces
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- Mangers
- Employees
- time
- organisational inertia
- legislation
- financial considerations
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Managers
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If a manager is not convinced by the change, or fear it may threaten their position, they can act to seriously inhibit the chances of it success, by negatively influencing the employees, not prioritising the change tasks, or ignoring them completely
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Employees
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- Change can bring on feelings of fear and anxiety within employees, causing resistance
- If employees feel they haven’t been consulted or do not feel appreciated they may look to resist change
- If the change means loss of jobs or decreased job security employees may resist and try to sabotage the change.
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Time
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- Businesses may find a lack of time will impact on their ability to implement change successfully
- Business maybe under pressure from competitors or in a poor financial position and need to act quickly
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Organisational inertia
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- Organisational inertia is the businesses lack of ability to respond to pressures and embrace change
- Cultures or management that are unenthusiastic to change can make it difficult to gather momentum towards change
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Legislation
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- Legislation may block or make a difficult to implement change
- This can increase the cost of implementing a change
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Financial considerations
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- The immediate and long-term cost of a proposed change may make it difficult for the change to be implemented successfully
- Businesses should perform a cost/benefit analysis before implementing any changes.
- Change can be expensive. Costs may include new equipment, redundancies and/or retrenchment packages, retraining of existing staff, reorganisation of current workplace/s and processes.
