Title:
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT AS RESILIENT SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF THE FIRM

Authors:
Dr. Continue Anddison Eketu* and Dr. (Mrs.) Christine Adaobi Nwuche

Abstract:
Organizations as social systems bear entropic characteristic, which is the tendency to wear off and die, over time. However, this paper examined organizational change management as a conscious tendency to negate possible entropy in organizations. The paper contends that organizational change management is a resilience seeking behavior to ensure survival and effectiveness. It identifies resistance to change as the most critical challenge in organizational change management. Resistance occurs because every human cluster is a political arena where individuals self-serving seek to superintend over others interest in the distribution of both advantages and disadvantages. The paper reviewed the extent literature on change management, and contend that a management culture that will evoke high employee engagement, involvement, pro-social behavior, commitment and ethically, to reduce unconstructive resistance should be enthronedin the firm.