blog 4 Managing Change
Managing Change Argument on the Mullins’ view Change is often perceived differently by different individuals. Some are eager for change and can are usually visionaries and ambitious people. Others are indifferent or skeptical about change and view it as a negative thing. They are usually pragmatists and realists. These different perceptions are influenced by varying individual personalities (Jiang & Gu, 2015). The argument for Mullin’s view is based on the idea that these personalities cannot be changed, therefore, management can do little to avoid resistance to change. Galli (2018) also supported that personality has a great influence on the formation of employees' resistance to change. For example, employees who dare to take risks will be more likely to accept change and new things, while employees with more conservative personality will be afraid to go out of their comfort zone, so they are afraid of change. In addition, Lozic (2021) argued that one of the mos...