scholarly journals Reframing and reacting to employees’ responses to change: a focus on resistance

BMJ Leader ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-177
Author(s):  
Cara Reed ◽  
Aoife M McDermott
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Present Feature ◽  
Contemporary Context

BackgroundA hallmark of a leader is their ability to manage change—an ever-present feature of organisational life. Indeed, all improvement requires change, and in this context navigating employees’ responses to progress change is a key part of leadership. To support this, research and leadership development have historically focused on how leaders can reduce resistance to change. This review highlights the value of reframing classic conceptions of resistance to change as something negative.ResultWidening understanding of non-acceptance responses to change supports the provision of broader, yet more meaningful advice to leaders and managers about how to engage with employees in ways that can support improvement. To do this, the article identifies why resistance is important in the contemporary context and then outlines three current broad views within research on resistance to change identified by Robyn Thomas and Cynthia Hardy. These influence how resistance is seen and therefore how it is approached. The article considers what leaders can learn and do to more effectively navigate employees’ responses to change, and how reframing resistance applies to the specific context of healthcare.

scholarly journals Review of determinants of national medical leadership development

BMJ Leader ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Keijser ◽  
Max Poorthuis ◽  
Judith Tweedie ◽  
Celeste Wilderom
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Development ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Physician Engagement ◽  
High Level ◽  
Medical Leadership

Increasingly, physician engagement in management, quality and innovation is being recognised as vital, requiring ‘medical leadership’ (ML) competencies. Besides numerous local institutional efforts and despite the high level of autonomy of the medical profession and the education of its members, in some countries, national level activities are focusing on developing ML competencies to guide physicians in more effectively engaging in these non-medical activities. Up to this date, little is known about effective strategies and tactics for developing ML on a national level. This study investigates existing literature on determinants and interventions for national ML development. We performed a scoping review and subsequent systematic literature review of published reviews, using PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Ovid MEDLINE and Science Direct in search for eligible papers between 2011 and 2016. Full-text versions of 43 papers were studied, and a snowballing method was deployed. Data extraction included grounded theory coding, and synthesis of data was done iteratively during data clinics. Analysis of the seven included papers resulted in five discrete categories of determinants of and 10 distinct interventions relevant to national development of ML approaches. None of the papers reported on any specific phasing of national ML development. Our data suggest that local and national level activities in ML development should consider multifaceted and multilevel approaches, taking into account resistance to change and redesign of institutionalised logics that accompany changing positions and reconstruction of professional identities of physicians.

Understanding Resistance to Change: An Experiential Exercise

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Virajanand Varma
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Change Implementation ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Leading Change ◽  
Leadership Development Programs ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Experience Of Change

Organizational change remains one of the challenging concepts for students in leadership and organizational behavior classes to internalize if they have not experienced it directly. This exercise serves as a means for simulating the change process through a firsthand experience of change at a personal level. The assignment involves students choosing to experience a personal change (e.g., abstaining from a habit) for 3 weeks, maintaining a log of daily experiences, and writing a summary of the takeaways from their experience. Most of the students find it challenging to complete the task successfully (i.e., maintain total abstinence), which contributes to a lively follow-up discussion on successfully leading change and gives the students an opportunity to understand various challenges related to change implementation. This exercise can be used with a range of graduate and undergraduate courses in management curricula as well as in other leadership development programs.

Recognizing Principles of Integrated Urban Planning in Historical Development of the City: A Case Study of Banja Luka

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422110306
Author(s):  
Brankica Milojević ◽  
Igor Kuvač
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Development History ◽  
Banja Luka ◽  
Contextual Values ◽  
The City ◽  
Century Development ◽  
Integrated Urban Planning ◽  
Contemporary Context

Integrated urban planning is based on the necessity of constantly adapting to complex social processes and applying methodology that supports multidisciplinarity, flexibility, and adaptability. In trying to achieve future visions and to meet trends of urbanization, inherited contextual values are often forgotten. Although the impression that everything was better before is based on nostalgia, the urban development history should still be analyzed. This article analyzes principles of integrated urban planning by reviewing twentieth-century development of Banja Luka. The objective is to recognize, to evaluate, and to adapt those principles to the contemporary context and to reconsider them in the future. The analysis shows the positive and negative values of the development, which reveals that the principles of integrated urban planning were present in each period. As their singularity and fragmentation without the systematic integration was not efficient enough, recommendations for improving integrated urban planning in the specific context are given.

Benefits and Characteristics of Mentoring Students and Young Professionals

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristal Mills
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Workplace Retention

Abstract Mentoring has long been believed to be an effective means of developing students' clinical, research, and teaching skills to become competent professionals. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has developed two online mentoring programs, Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P. 1:1) and Mentoring Academic Research Careers (MARC), to aid in the development of students. This paper provides a review of the literature on mentoring and compares and contrasts mentoring/mentors with clinical supervision/preceptors. Characteristics of effective mentors and mentees are offered. Additionally, the benefits of clinical mentoring such as, teambuilding in the workplace, retention of new staff, leadership development, and improved job satisfaction are discussed.

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