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Managing Resistance to Change in Organizations: A Critical Review of Strategies and Best Practices
(ICSDB 2024 and SLIIT Business School, 2024-12-10) Dias, T.; Jayawickrama, P.
With the advancement of new technologies, change has become a necessary survival strategy in several industries. To survive in this unpredictable business environment, it is necessary to have a deep understanding about change management. In spite of commonness of changes happening in organizations, a considerable number of change initiatives have failed. As the perspective about change is different from an individual to an individual, most of the time organizations come across resistance from the employees. This research article explores the causes, effective strategies, and methods to overcome the resistance to change within the organizations. Aiming to provide an insightful understanding of organizational change, change management theories, processes through the literature review. This research is an outcome of several journals that have been published. Around fifty journal articles have been gathered from various platforms such as ScienceDirect, ResearchGate, Harvard review. The result of the discussion discovers the fear of employees for the change and ways to navigate resistance effectively and implement successful change initiatives by providing practical recommendations for managing resistance, with aid of leaders, manager and change agents.
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The effects of employee related factors on organizational restructuring: A case study in apparel manufacturing company in Sri Lanka
(researchgate.net, 2016-09) Weerarathna, R. S; Jayarathna, S. M. D. Y
With ever changing business environment, every organization should do several changes in order to face those changes in business environment. With the acceptance of that fact, researchers have selected apparel manufacturing company in Sri Lanka which has undergone major organizational restructuring. This case study focuses on the effects of employee related factors on organizational restructuring. Case study method was adopted by the researchers and the study was developed by identifying an issue which occurred in a group of companies that manufacture children’s garments for both local market and overseas market. The case has been analyzed through work life balance of employees, reactions from workforce generations and organizational restructuring which are important topics of Organization Behavior, Change Management and Human Resource Management.
Open Access
The effects of employee related factors on organizational restructuring: A case study in apparel manufacturing company in Sri Lanka
(researchgate.net, 2016-09) Weerarathna, R. S; Jayarathna, S. M. D. Y
With ever changing business environment, every organization should do several changes in order to face those changes in business environment. With the acceptance of that fact, researchers have selected apparel manufacturing company in Sri Lanka which has undergone major organizational restructuring. This case study focuses on the effects of employee related factors on organizational restructuring. Case study method was adopted by the researchers and the study was developed by identifying an issue which occurred in a group of companies that manufacture children’s garments for both local market and overseas market. The case has been analyzed through work life balance of employees, reactions from workforce generations and organizational restructuring which are important topics of Organization Behavior, Change Management and Human Resource Management.
Open Access
Driving Organizational Change In The Midst Of The Crisis: How Does It Affect Employee Performance?
(2021-01) Rajapakshe, W
The purpose of the study is to investigate how organizational change during a crisis influence employee performance, with special references to a virtual work setting and working from home. Primary data obtained from 295 employees from three commercial banks in Sri Lanka were selected through Stratified Simple Random Sampling. Descriptive statistics, linear regression analysis and multiple regression analysis are used for data analysis. The linear regression results explore that measures/variables such as changes in a communication system; leadership; Technology and Tolerance to change have a significant negative effect on employee performance, while the multiple regression analysis shows, only the changes in communication and leadership affect employees' performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were limited to selected employees in three private commercial banks in Colombo, Sri Lanka using a self-structured questionnaire. The findings of this research rely on primary data collected from the grass root level. Also considering the response rate and sample size, there are limitations to generalize the findings. This research was restricted to four variables Changes in the communication system; Changes in leadership style; Technology advancement and Tolerance to change; impact of other factors that can influence employees' performance during the pandemic period did not fall under the scope of this study/were not covered. The impact of organizational change on employees' performance during COVID-19 is an under-researched area of study. Findings of this study can act as a guideline in future for managers to handle organizational change with lesser employee resistance to successfully manage where companies are forced to implement sudden changes.

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