Resistance to Change

• 1.  Read the article titled “The Role of Corporate Communication and Perception of Justice during Organizational Change Process”. Next, analyze the relationship between communication and resistance. Evaluate the major consequences of poor communication. 

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After  reading this article I see where both resistance and communication both  work together. In order for a company to implement change they need to  communicate with their employees, because people respond to change in  various way. Some people accept change and actively participate while  other people would rather avoid the change and will resist it (Oreg et  al.,2008).  

Communication  very important between a company its employees and it has to be the  correct way. With businesses constantly struggling to keep with other  businesses and all the technological changes it is important for  companies to communicate with their employees so that they don’t have a  hard time adjusting when change comes about. By communicating early on  it can help to ease the employee’s anxieties about the change and  instead of resisting the change they will be able to embrace it.

One  major consequence of poor communication is employees resisting the  change. When employees resist change it could cause employee morale to  go down. When employee morale is down people tend to look for employment  elsewhere and production levels could also suffer. Poor communication  could also create a toxic work environment which could destroy a  company.  It is better for the employees to hear about change from  management rather than hearsay because the wrong information could get  passed around and the company would then have to do damage control in  hopes of controlling the situation.