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Managing The Affective Responses Of Employees During Organizational Change In Higher Education, Brad Kennington
Managing The Affective Responses Of Employees During Organizational Change In Higher Education, Brad Kennington
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Higher education is facing a period of continual change driven by numerous external and internal forces. Consequently, higher education leaders are faced with the frequent and daunting task of planning and managing organizational change in higher education institutions, which are both complex and dynamic in nature. Adding difficulty to this task is the fact that employees often react to change with emotional responses that are both challenging to understand and complicated and to manage. Managing affective dimensions of change can be overwhelming to leaders, which can lead to failed organizational change efforts. This study explored and answered (a) how a …