Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The recent structural trend is toward a taller organizational hierarchy.
2. Sabotage can be a form of resistance to change in the workplace.
3. Mistrust between change agents and employees can cause failure of well-conceived changes.
4. Innovative change is the least threatening type of change and is therefore least likely to create resistance.
1. FALSE
Changes in strategy frequently require changes in structure. The recent trend is toward "flattening the hierarchy," eliminating several middle layers of management.
2. TRUE
Resistance to change is an emotional/behavioral response to real or imagined threats to an established work routine. Resistance can be as subtle as passive resignation and as overt as deliberate sabotage.
3. TRUE
Resistance to change is reduced when change agents and employees have a trusting relationship and faith in each other's intentions. Mistrust, on the other hand, encourages secrecy, which begets deeper mistrust, and can doom an otherwise well-conceived change.
4. FALSE
Adaptive change is reintroduction of a familiar practice, the implementation of a kind of change that has already been experienced within the same organization. This form of change is lowest in complexity, cost, and uncertainty. Because it is familiar, it is the least threatening to employees and thus will create the least resistance.
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