M: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Steven McShane, Mary Von Glinow

Exercise 83

Scenario: XYZ Office Supplies
XYZ Office Supplies is about to introduce a new customer service program that will affect all of its 355 sales and service employees. Job duties will be changed and the employee reward system will be altered to fit this new customer focus. Moreover, the company wants to improve the efficiency of work processes, thereby removing some of the comfortable (and often leisurely) routines that employees have followed over the years. Top management is concerned about what types of forces resisting change the company will potentially experience during this change process.
Which of the following types of resistance to change might be used by employees at XYZ as a deliberate strategy to 'prove' that the decision is wrong or that the change agent is incompetent?
A) Direct costs
B) Fear of the unknown
C) Saving face
D) Breaking routines
E) Incongruent organizational systems