Change Bruce Dawe

It is easy to reject change just because I have grown accustomed to the way the work is being performed. Without examining the new way, I am not giving it a chance. Rejecting change delays progress and wastes time and effort. To overcome this hindrance, reactions should be set aside, and the change should be judged critically based on the idea.

As a result, Zwick (2002, p. 542) has noted that implementing change programmes in organisations that realise positive outcomes remain problematic for many organisations in the 21st century. Ayodeji & Oyesola (2011, p. 235) have postulated that organisational change is a dynamic process, which when taken poorly contribute to employee resistance to it, and eventually leads to failure of the whole process. 3|Page Organisation Behaviour; MGTS 1601; Individual Essay; Employee resistance to change Yuanli Zhang 43401163 Employees resist changes when they occur in the organisations for several reasons. Many organisations when they introduce changes are likely to stick to the ‘top-down organisational change’ process (Awasthy, Chandrasekaran & Gupta, 2011, pp.

Change is a process of alteration it can be instantaneous or it could be a gradual change, change may be physical, psychological or environmental all change that occurs is either positive or negative, in relation to the prescribed text “ The Dreamers” a play by Jack Davis, a related text of Kevin Rudd’s sorry speech and a cartoon by R.Cobb use a variety of visual and literary techniques to show that a large amount of change that occurs around the world results in negative change rather than positive change.

Welcome Note by John Kotter: People do not often understand the need for change. Businesses, school systemsand even nations do not know understand what to do, how to make it happen and how to make it stick. This book shows the traps in which people often fall while facing the challenge of change - using a fable. A fable is used in

Dawe presents these diverse responses through the juxtaposition of the children’s age. The ‘oldest girl’ was ‘close to tears’ and the ‘youngest girl’ was ‘beaming’. Clearly, age differentiation manipulates individuals’ responses to change. The fact the ‘youngest girl’, who could cope with change easier is suggested by her minimal encounters with change; she is not used to her transient lifestyle. Contrastingly, the ‘oldest girl’, who is already used to change, is reluctant and afraid to experience more change that is unwanted.

People generally like to stay in their comfort zone, they do not like changes. However, change is a necessary part of life, we see change in nature every day. Change can be positive or negative. We can choose to embrace the change or reject it, we also can choose to allow the change to have a negative or positive impact on our lives. Helmstetter lists six steps when dealing with change. First to recognize the change, then to decide if you are going to accept or reject the change. The next step is to choose your attitude toward the change, then choose how you are going to deal with it and what actions you are going to take. The last step is to evaluate your progress of accepting the change (Lamberton and Minor, 2012)

Change is a process that affects individuals and their environments. Some people choose to embrace change, while others resist it. “Macbeth”; the song “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and the episode of the Twilight Zone, “A Stop at Willoughby” all successfully convey the notion of change and demonstrate how individuals and societies can embrace or resist change.

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Change should be seen as a challenge and embraced with enthusiasm (Marquis & Huston, 2012). In my professional and personal life, I view and respond to change as a way to make improvements to existing regulations and circumstances. I embark upon the quest with determination to succeed at whatever task is presented to me. Life without change can become unchallenging and stagnant (Marquis & Huston, 2012). As society and technology advance, you must incorporate the necessary transformations that arise with it.

Change, the essential of life, it can be tranquility or turbulence, change has no set goal, it occurs all around us without us knowing. In the novel, The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, change is the major problem in the society even though it is hidden in different aspects of life. To the society, change is their enemy, but it is themselves who are their enemies without knowing it. A society that fails to realize the inevitability of change will indubitably agonize.

The Chinese Proverb states, “When the wind of change blows, some build walls while others build windmills.” The quote expresses how when a change starts to occur, most people overcome it and others just keep digging themselves into a bigger hole. The power of change can enable people realize some things or they will interpret a bad perspective from it. In three of the selections chosen, the author shows the positive changes the character’s went through.

The first being is how her lifestyle is. She lived in Texas which if she lived there long enough would make her less tolerant to the gay lifestyle, but also the time she grew up in which would be the early 1900s, and not tell the 90s is when the gay lifestyle was more acceptable. Also with the addition of Kathrine mother being added help us understand how Kathrine was raised, but unlike her mother she was unable to change. The movie change of the finally scene gave a different view of Kathrine view on everything going on in her life. In the play she holds the balloon, kisses it, and releases it which gives the feeling that she feels pain and grief. In the movie she has a flashback when she and Andre were younger showing that no matter what her son did that she will always love

The book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath & Dan Heath is a book that has inspired it’s readers to become activists in their own lives, by showing them that it is possible to change if they do not want to live in their current situation. It gives readers methods and approaches about the best way to be activists, not only in their own lives, but also in the lives of the individuals around them. In writing this book, the author is trying to convey the message that we do have a say in our lives and change is up to us, regardless of the situation. It is giving readers both perspectives about how change can be hard and unsettling, but that it is still possible. The book was made to create as much “real” change to lifestyles as possible and is made for readers who are seeking to improve their lives by pursuing change.

Dawe encapsulates fear and horror associated with war and it’s repressive power over the individual and society. Reflecting the emotional and physical damage of war personified through the alliterated simile “Telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree”, emphasising the burden of carrying terrible news. Additionally the reference to the “wintering tree”, indicates seasonal imagery from autumn to winter. Therefore the cold and distant feeling of displacement is similar to the attitudes of the silent, dead soldiers coming from Vietnam. Political power creates further harm emotionally and physically leading to the soldiers coming “too early, too late”. Discussing the youthfulness of the dead soldiers who are now in “green plastics bags” lack individuality and are forever forgotten. The simile “whining like hounds” emphasises the catastrophic fear and death within war depicting how a dog can also feel emotions of loss.

Changing perspectives…Change is a process, a transition or an alteration that affects different aspects of our life. As a result the forces of change can seriously affect the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of individuals. The affects of change can have a positive or negative outcome. These affects can be viewed in all three of the texts that we have studied for the Area of Study. Change is a part of life and whether or not we like that aftermath of the particular aspect of the change it will happen, you can put it off and put it off but sooner or later it will happen. Change is also unavoidable. To examine change and changing perspectives the following texts will be assessed the core text in the area of study "Looking for Alibrandi" the