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Publication Open Access 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.Publication Open Access Women’s Resistance to Subjecti fi cati on in The Guide by Narayan (1958) and “Sunset Coast” by Sakkarawarthi (2022)(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-12-04) Marasinghe, M. M. S. N.; Ehelapitiya, E. H. D. S. B.The bind between women and the nati on they belong to has historically revealed a dynamic and contenti ous nexus. Bound within a dialecti cal relati onship, women are deemed the nati on embodied and subjected to its att endant suff erings, whilst simultaneously being burdened with the task of reproducing the nati onalist rhetoric that they themselves have no hand in penning. In such a context, this study undertakes a discussion on the confi gurati on of female subjecti vity through The Guide by R.K. Narayan and “Sunset Coast ‘’ by Sakkarawarthi, situated in postcolonial India and Tamil separati st war era Sri Lanka, respecti vely. Moreover, it examines and evinces the diff ering ways in which women overtly and covertly assert agency within the circumscripti ve bounds of patriarchal nati onalism. In elucidati ng the narrati ves of women striving for autonomy, this essay contends that these two texts functi on as discourses of resistance to androcentric nati onalism.