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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Resistance to Change"”.
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Resistance to Change Within Education
<p>Teachers often are resistant to hierarchal changes in education and curriculum potentially resulting in unsatisfactory and inefficient implementation of new programs. How can change be received in a positive way, rather than met with resistance? Is there a way to recognize factors that …
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Resistance to change in UK universities : a Habermasian perspective
… the potential for argumentation as a form of resistance management during change within the context of UK Higher Education Institutions. Resistance to change is an area that has received considerable attention, with many scholars attributing it as a significant reason why change initiatives …
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An interdisciplinary approach to belief formation and resistance to change
… on, and perplexing, aspects of beliefs is their resistance to change as discussed by researchers such as Frijda, Mesquita, Manstead and Bern, amongst others. This is especially the case for false beliefs. The thesis examines the many influences on belief formation in general, but with a special …
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An Evaluation of Resistance to Change with Unconditioned and Conditioned Reinforcers
Several variables have been shown to influence resistance to change including rate, magnitude, and delay to reinforcement (Nevin, 1974). One variable that has not been studied with humans concerns the evaluation of resistance to change with unconditioned and conditioned reinforcers. In Experiment 1 …
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Privatization and the resistance to change : technological, political, and sociological issues.
… lead agencies. Their role as a lead agency is to provide and/or sub contract all services related to maintaining children referred to them by the state or private investigators. In a similar fashion, Texas has pushed towards privatization with Senate Bill 6 which requires that all functions of …
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Organizational Antecedents to the Implementation of Precision Medicine: Overcoming Resistance to Change
… treatment and prevention of disease that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person” (NIH, 2015). PM was poised to transform clinical practice in 2003 when the Human Genome Project reached completion but resistance to implementation at virtually …
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Resistance to change among veteran teachers: Providing voice for more effective engagement
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Adaptación y propiedades psicométricas de la escala Resistance to Change (RTC-11)
The objective of this research is to adapt and analyze the psychometric properties of the Resistance to Change Scale (RTC-11) of Boada-Cuerva et al. (2018) in a sample of 171 employees between 18 and 63 years old (58.5% males and 41.5% females) from private companies of Metropolitan Lima who have …
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The German National Liberal Party, 1900-1914: Political Revival and Resistance to Change
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7524369.pdf: 17674939 bytes, checksum: f06e44be1a9b11fad13866e63638fb54 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Factors Affecting Resistance to Change: A Case Study of Two North Texas Police Departments
This study focuses on four common factors believed to affect resistance to change in public organizations. It contributes to existing literature by examining the effect of higher education and trust on the police officer's level of resistance to change and the effects of participation and …
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Can Chameleons Lead Change? The Effect of Resistance to Change on High Self-Monitoring Leaders' Strength of Purpose
The evidence linking self-monitoring (Snyder, 1974) and leadership suggests that it is better to be high than low in self-monitoring regarding leader effectiveness (Day et al., 2002); however, social responsiveness could be a double-edged sword when it comes to leading organization change. It was …
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The influence of transformational Leadership, organizational culture, and personality on employee resistance to change within a manufacturing organization in Cape Town
Various reasons exist as to why change initiatives in organizations fail. Some research studies indicate that 60-70% of planned change initiatives fail due to performance not meeting the required expectations or plans not simply being implemented. Given this new reality of change, changing …
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An evaluation of resistance to organisational change and its effects on employee productivity: The case of Telecom Namibia
Change has become important and unavoidable in today’s business environment. The dynamic business environment of today requires organisations to be continuously changing their systems and structures for survival and in order to remain competitive. However, many change initiatives face big …
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Predicting clinicians’ intentions towards the electronic health record (EHR) : an extended UTAUT model
… Electronic Health Record (EHR) has the potential to promote understanding or awareness of healthcare knowledge among patients and healthcare providers to facilitate collaboration between various key stakeholders to improve the quality of healthcare. The technology is also expected to provide …
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Information Technology Change in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry: An Investigation of Individuals' Resistance
This research project investigates individuals' resistance to change brought about by new information technology implementation in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. By understanding how individual participants resist and adapt to change, their resistance can be better …
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