Oreg, Shaul: Disentangling the Complexity of Recipients’ Responses to Change

Marlene Walk ()
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Marlene Walk: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Chapter 72 in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, 2021, pp 1241-1256 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Shaul Oreg contributes to contemporary thinking in organizational change research in significant ways. In his early research, Shaul established the construct of dispositional resistance to change, which captures affective, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of individuals’ personal orientation toward change. Building on this work, Shaul shows that dispositional resistance to change predicts reactions to specific change, which are subsequently related to individual- and work-related outcomes. Overall, his research provides an in-depth view of reactions to change and an integrative approach to understanding the antecedents and consequences of these reactions. Through the holistic approach that characterizes his research, Shaul is able to uncover nuances at play in the interactions between individual and contextual factors and, thus, contributes to a better understanding of the complexity involved in recipients’ responses to change. This chapter describes Shaul’s personal background and motivation for this line of research, discusses the key contributions of his research and how it impacted other scholars, and outlines his future research trajectory.

Keywords: Dispositional resistance to change; Reactions to change; Change recipients (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_86

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