Company ABC is currently experiencing a lack of cooperation between employees and a general distrust and fear of abandoning business processes that worked well in the past. Applying Lewin’s ‘Unfreeze-Change-Re-freeze’ change theory, provide a step-by-step strategy of how the company may overcome these common barriers to implementing change.

Company ABC is currently experiencing a lack of cooperation between employees and a general distrust and fear of abandoning business processes that worked well in the past. Applying Lewin’s ‘Unfreeze-Change-Re-freeze’ change theory, provide a step-by-step strategy of how the company may overcome these common barriers to implementing change.

Understanding Management (MindTap Course List)

10th Edition

ISBN:9781305502215

Author:Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic

Publisher:Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic

Chapter8: Managing Change And Innovation

Section: Chapter Questions

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