Leadership styles and leading change - Forces for and against change
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Driver for change: external forces
- Role of the state
- social pressures
- changing technology
- constraints from suppliers
- stakeholder demands
- competitor behaviour
- customer needs
Driver for change: internal forces
- Organizational growth
- pressure on increased performance
- managerial aspirations
- political coalitions
- redesign of jobs
- restructuring
Drivers against change: individual resistance
- Fear of the unknown
- dislike of the uncertainty and ambiguity
- surrounding change
- potential loss of power base
- potential loss of rewards
- perceived lack of skills for new situation
- potential loss of current skills
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Drivers against change: organizational resources
- Inertial forces deriving from the systemic nature of organizations
- Interlocking aspects of structure, control systems, ritual and routines, signs and symbols
- Inertial forces deriving from group norms
- potential loss of power group bases
- entrenched interests of stakeholders
- lack of organizational capability
- lack of resources
- threat to resource allocation
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