Change And Conformity Threaten Organizational Change Summary

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In the article, "How Loss Aversion and Conformity Threaten Organizational Change" by Sean Ryan explains, when organizations are implementing change leaders must understand that there are hurdles to go over to implement those changes. Ryan claims, "They need to understand how biases- their own, and their employee'- can shape behaviors and decisions, and prevent them from achieving what they set out to achieve" (Ryan, 2016). Many employees will have a negative bias towards change and fear that he or she will lose rather than win. Those individuals would instead stick with the status quo rather than challenge or change it for the better. In some cases when an organization is implementing change, executives do not realize that employees could …show more content…

Before applying those changes, leaders need to prepare members for those changes and hear out any concerns. Being prepared, they will be more confident with the changes and see those changes for the best. Two main points that both Sean Ryan and Nick Tasler point out in their article is how individuals view and how they react towards change. Members of an organization view change as hard or have a fear of failure. When one part of the changes that are implemented starts to fail, members may see the whole project as a failure. Tasler explains, that "suddenly, employees disengage en masses and then the change engine begins to sputter in both perception and reality" (Tasler, 2017). Members may feel that the losses/ failures are much higher than other areas that they are succeeding in and think that the whole project needs to end. For these two articles, how do leaders prepare members for changes that that are going to happen within the organization and make sure that they see them as positive? Another question is, how do leaders make sure that they have clear communication on all levels to make sure that the changes that are working before it is too late to fix

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