Question

Organizations have built-in mechanisms—like their selection processes and formalized regulations—to produce stability. When an organization is confronted with change, these mechanisms act as a counterbalance to sustain stability. Which of the following organizational sources of resistance to change is represented by these mechanisms?A) group inertiaB) selective information processingC) employee-orientationD) structural inertiaE) product- orientation

Answer 1

Answer:

D.

Explanation:

Sources of resistance to change :

Individual sources

-Habit

-Security

-Economic factors

-Fear of the unknown

-Selective information processing

Organizational sources

-Limited focus of change

-Group inertia

-Threat to expertise

-Threat to established power relationships

-Threat to resource allocations

-Structural inertia :

Environment that an organization operates in creates a selection process that favors organizations with structures that are difficult to change . This doesn’t mean that organizations don’t change but that they respond relatively slow to threats and opportunities and tend to make peripheral rather than core changes . Modern world tends to favor organizations that have  capacity for reliable performance and account rationally for their actions. Organizations with high levels of all three factors are more likely to survive than those with low levels . Older organizations will tend to have higher levels of all three factors than new organizations.