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Change is an important requirement in any business process. For adjusting with the challenges of huge competitions and changes in the customer behavior, most of the organizations are required to make significant organizational changes at some point of time. However, challenges can come from making these changes and one such challenge is resistances from the employees (Petrou, Demerouti & Scahufeli, 2018). There are several factors which bring in such resistances. Some common factors are as following:

Poor communication: This is one of the basic causes of the resistances. This is because due to lack of proper communication between the management and the employees, the later are mostly unaware of the changes to be implemented and the development they require to make in their skills and knowledge.

Politics in organization: This can occur when some individuals tend to oppose the changes citing the reason of incapability of the leaders on managing the changes effectively. Therefore, despite of being the change an effective one, other employees begin resisting it.

Wrong approach: In many cases, the approach of the changes may be wrong. That is the timing or strategy can be wrong which can lead to disputes with the employees and they tend to feel the changes are not being appropriate to suit their needs from the organization.

Lack of skills: This is one of the common causes as employees tend to fear that they will not be able to cope up with the new business process due to their lack of skills on those.

However, some proper strategies can be implemented to overcome these issues of resistances. One such strategy is proper planning. The management of the organizations need to identify the roots of the resistances and should make planning on overcoming or tackling those roots. They need to provide full support to the existing employees to overcome their fears on the changes to be implemented (Ann Sykes, 2015).

Reference:

Ann Sykes, T. (2015). Support structures and their impacts on employee outcomes: A longitudinal field study of an enterprise system implementation. MIS quarterly, 39(2). http://www.academia.edu/download/53565259/Support_Structure_ERP.pdf

Petrou, P., Demerouti, E., & Schaufeli, W. B. (2018). Crafting the change: The role of employee job crafting behaviors for successful organizational change. Journal of Management, 44(5), 1766-1792. https://www.wilmarschaufeli.nl/publications/Schaufeli/492.pdf