Once you perceive a change as positive, you must decide whether or not you are going to support it. It is one thing to view a new procedure as positive but quite another to decide on committing the necessary time, energy, and other resources to make it work.
Management-employee alienation, reduced productivity, decreased quality, absenteeism, grievances, and even overt sabotage are all possible symptoms of agent or target resistance to the change.
Reasons that Positive Perception might not move to Installation
- Return On Investment seen as too low.
- ROI is high, but so is the cost of failure.
- Other issues take higher priority for use of resources.
Efforts to increase moving towards Installation
- Make sure you have not skipped one of the preceding steps pre-maturely.
- Increase the awareness of the cost of doing nothing.
- Make the benefits more tangible.