Report Analysis

Directions

Using the cited research from the textbook as a starting point, you  are to find a current (as recent as possible) related journal article,  preferably on the same topic. You should then read the current article  and compare its’ results and findings to those summarized in the text.  After determining whether the results and findings are the same or  different from those cited in the textbook, you then need to explain  what those similarities or differences mean, in plain English.

All cited material must include both internal citations and a  complete reference list at the end of the paper. A cover sheet should  minimally indicate the name of the Research Report, the name of the  course, the student's name and the date.

Article Specific Directions

Chapter 14, Research Report 14.1 – Effect of group participation on resistance to change

The Coch and French (1948) article is a foundation article, so it  should be possible to find something more recent than this article. The  point of the exercise is to find another article dealing with  participation and resistance to change. If that is not possible, find  another article dealing resistance to change.

To that end it may be helpful to:

1. Use the library databases to search on “participation” and  “resistance to change” as well as the authors names to find related  articles.
2. Use Research report 14.1 to generate search terms, as previously  suggested. The narrative and results sections have useful phrases that  can be used for a literature search.
3. You do not want to merely summarize the article. You want to  indicate whether the article you found is consistent or inconsistent  with the Cochand French (1948) findings. Then you want to discuss what  these results, as a whole (both articles together), mean to leaders and  managers in terms of being able to deal with resistance to change.