Restraining forces in businesses

Question 1

Restraining forces

Answer 1

forces that work against change

Question 2

Who are the restraining forces

Answer 2

managers
employees
time
organsiational
legslation
financial considerations

Question 3

Managers

Answer 3

• not be convinced for change
• they are comfortable with their current working conditions
  -fear the change can threaten their position
  They can act seriously inhibit chances of its success, by neglecting influeneing employees, not prioratising the change tasks or ignoring them completely.
  They can openly oppose or seek to prevent or undermine change

Question 4

Employees

Answer 4

• fear of the unknown

-fear that the change will affect their job security

-fail to see a reason for change
change can be emotional and can results in disputes, stikes and industrial actions.

–> TO OVERCOME= appropriate levels of communciation, training and support need to be given.

Question 5

Time

Answer 5

• implenting change takes time, having insufficent time to work through the change causes resistsance

-Deadlines, mananger’s announcements, delays with contractors ect… all put time restraints on a business and make it hard to achieve the change

-If a competitor moves into an industry, then ideally the business should repsosnd as quick as possible.However, sometimes the time required to change a business’s tasks and procedures or even products and services can bge avery long time.

Question 6

Orgainsational

Answer 6

-tendency for the business to maintain established ways of operating

• often occurs in stable, conservative businesses where holding onto long held traditions makes it hard to bring about change

Question 7

legislation

Answer 7

certian laws may prevent the business operating in the way they would like to

-can sometimes make it harder for businesses to change the way they may want to.

• Failure to comply with legislation= fines, suspensions, prison sentences or business closures if the breach of leigstalion is serious enough.

Question 8

example of legislation

Answer 8

business may struggle to compete with cheaper imports. To try and reduce production costs, management may consider reducing wage rates per hour. However, the national employment standards make it illegal to pay ppl below the national minimum wage.

Question 9

Financial Considerations

Answer 9

-business may have insuffiecient funds to enable change

-whilst a business may want change, if they dont have enough finance to pay for these changes then the change itself is unlikely to occur–> can be true for small businesses

Question 10

Financial considerations: lack of funds may require:

Answer 10

explorations to obtain finance from other means e.g loans, scailing down the plans, aborting the plan completely.