Change resistance source
Change resistance source (hereinafter, the Source) is any cause of one's resistance to change.
Types
Individual's Source
- Main wikipage: Individual's change-resistance source
- Individual's change-resistance source is any change resistance source that concerns an individual.
Enterprise Source
- Main wikipage: Enterprise change-resistance source
- Enterprise change-resistance source is any change resistance source that concerns an enterprise.
Comparison
Category Change resistance source Individual's change-resistance source
- Habit. Any settled tendency or usual way of behavior.
- Personal security. One's freedom from fear of the unknown.
- Economic conservatism. The tendency to prefer an existing economic stability to change.
- Fear of the unknown. An unpleasant emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger that the upcoming change may bring.
- Reaffirmation tendency. An inclination toward favorable perception of something that reaffirms one's attitudes.
Enterprise change-resistance source
- Group inertia. Group's tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.
- Structural inertia. Organizational structure's tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.
- Limited focus of change. One's concern that the proposed change could be limited down to a small part of an enterprise, which cannot be changed without changing other interrelated parts.
- Threat to expertise. A possibility to lose one's expertise gained in an existing situation as a result of change.
- Threat to established power relationships. A possibility to damage existing power relationships as a result of change.
