Question

The chief executive of Telecommco, a large telecommunications company, wants to restructure the organization so that product leaders would have more power than the executives in charge of each region. The regional executives try to prevent this restructuring because it would weaken their power and possibly reduce their salaries in the long term. The product leaders also put up some resistance because they feel that things work just fine the way they are currently.The resistance from the product leaders is an example of resistance due to::A) negative valence of change.B) incongruent organizational systems.C) not-invented-here syndrome.D) breaking routines.E) fear of the unknown.

Answer 1

Answer:

E that is, fear of the unknown

Explanation:

Fear of the unknown occurs when employees are afraid of exploring new grounds as due to fear of not adapting to the new change. This is true of the product leaders who also put up resistance to a change that is meant to favor them from an emotional point of view