Intelligent way to manage change: Threats in standing up for the status quo
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds his/her own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
The study suggests that organizational change is likely to undermine employees’ freedom, which will arouse negative affective states. The latter are likely to energize reactance – a motivational state directed to restore the threatened freedoms. Negative affect and reactance may be mitigated by implementing and sustaining socially supportive and interpersonally just organizational environment, led by an emotionally intelligent management staff.
Practical implications
The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.
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Acknowledgements
Retraction notice
The Publisher wishes to retract the precis article “Intelligent way to manage change: Threats in standing up for the status quo”, published in Strategic Direction, Vol. 30 No. 8, 2014. It has come to the attention of Emerald Publishing that this precis article contains large sections of unattributed text taken from the original research article “Organizational change and psychological reactance”, by Dmitriy A. Nesterkin, published in Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 26 No. 3, 2013.
Precis articles are intended to summarise original academic research articles for a different audience, and should not include verbatim passages from the original articles. This error occurred due to a miscommunication in the commissioning process.
To avoid any repeated incidents of this nature, Emerald has fully revised its guidelines and briefed its Commissioning Editors. Strategic Direction sincerely apologises to the original authors and its readers for this error. The original article can be viewed here: https://doi.org/10.1108/09534811311328588.
Citation
(2014), "Intelligent way to manage change: Threats in standing up for the status quo", Strategic Direction, Vol. 30 No. 8, pp. 3-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/SD-06-2014-0077
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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