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The Effect Of Leadership Styles On ‎Resistance To Change With The Workers, Shaker Al-Khashali

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research attempts to study the relationship between leadership style and employees resistance ‎to change at industrial firms in Jordan. A simple of (191) employees is selected from (3) of the largest ‎industrial firms.‎ Results show an overall “above – average” degree of resistance to change, the same degree of ‎resistance under associated with democratic leadership style.‎ Results, also, show that authoritarian leadership style is positively associated with resistance to ‎change (organizational, subjective, economic, and culture dimension), and democratic leadership ‎style is negatively correlated with organizational dimension of resistance only (and not other ‎dimension). Moreover, results show that classifier leadership …