Change Management: A Change Everyone Fears?

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Lidija Grdošić

Erste Card Club Ltd.

Ammar Avdić

BDO Croatia Ltd.; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics

Date Written: September 7, 2017

Abstract

Change Management is often defined as a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams and organisations from a current to desired future state, aimed firstly at employee empowerment for accepting that change. But that change inevitably brings fear: fear of being unable to adapt, fear of meeting or working with new people, fear of a new workplace or even new tasks that will be given. It is an evolutionary fear that brings resistance to everything that changes routine in our lives. The goal of this paper is to show, using a survey which will collect data of Croatian employees who have come across those changes, different perspectives and barriers which those fears bring and that they are possible to overcome even in the earlier stages of change management projects in order to become much more effective in our workplaces.

Keywords: change management, organisational change, development, ICT

JEL Classification: M12, M15

Suggested Citation

Grdošić, Lidija and Avdić, Ammar, Change Management: A Change Everyone Fears? (September 7, 2017). 2017 ENTRENOVA Conference Proceedings, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3282495

Lidija Grdošić (Contact Author)

Erste Card Club Ltd. ( email )

Croatia

Ammar Avdić

BDO Croatia Ltd. ( email )

Croatia

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics ( email )

Varaždin
Croatia

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