Change can be seen as a threatening and traumatic process for organisational members. What are the chief means that managers have for encouraging the positive acceptance of change?
Overcoming resistance and seeing change as an opportunity can be done using several different approaches. Managers can adopt certain qualities or organisational strategies to the company in order to encourage workers to be more receptive to change. Change as a concept is constantly developing and reacting to the external environment. I think to describe change in absolute terms however, would not be possible due to this very nature of continuously adapting to new situations within the internal and external environments of the organisation.
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