Rejection Of Change Research Articles

Evaluation of Teacher Empowerment Education Program 4th Batch in South Tanggerang Using the Krikpatrick Model

The Teacher Empowerment Program (PPGP) is a professional development initiative through education, training, and mentoring that focuses on instructional leadership to promote holistic growth and active, proactive participation of students. The program aims to actively develop educators to implement student-centered learning. This qualitative research employs a narrative approach. The research results show positive behavioral changes in teacher mover after completing PPGP, notably impacting the improvement of classroom learning quality and the cultivation of a learning culture among teachers within the school ecosystem. Although some schools have not fully optimized the growth of a learning culture among their teachers, they are moving in the right direction. Challenges and obstacles are inherent in transformation efforts, reinforcing the appropriateness of the Ministry of Education and Culture's decision to appoint Teacher Empowerment Program participants as school leaders. This move strengthens the force for change and minimizes resistance to or rejection of change.

The Role of Uncertainty Avoidance Functioned in the Evolution of Brand Equity of FMCG (Study of Unusual Consumer Behavior at the Time of Emergency Declared Due to Out Break of Covod-19 in Pakistan

This study is written in the context of consumer behavior of how consumers respond to branded products at the time of uncertainty. Uncertainty avoidance is one of the dimensions presented by Hofstede and discusses the acceptance and rejection of change and adaptability by society. This research paper holds mixed methods where quantitative and qualitative both analysis is used to signify the prevailing phenomena. The embedded method is used in which quantitative and qualitative questions are embedded in the same questionnaire. For quantitative analysis, structural equation modeling is used to analyze results. Whereas for qualitative analysis consumer’s responses were interpreted through transcribe method. Due to the outbreak of COVID 19 various businesses in developed and developing countries have suffered low sales and less profit margin. Keeping this view, a large gap is found about how marketing activities and product /brand extensions would help other companies to sustain themselves in the market. The results of the quantitative analysis show uncertainty avoidance directly affect brand equity. In addition, with the mediation of brand awareness and brand loyalty, we found a significant impact. whereas, hypotheses on the mediation of brand image and perceived quality turned insignificant.

Eleatic Ontology in Aristotle: Introduction

The introduction summarizes the six new papers collected in Volume 1, Tome 5: Eleatic Ontology and Aristotle. The papers take a fresh look at virtually every aspect of Aristotle’s engagement with Eleaticism. They are particularly concerned with Aristotle’s responses to Parmenidean monism, the Eleatic rejection of change, and Zeno’s paradoxes. The contributions also focus on the ways in which Aristotle developed several of his own theories in metaphysics and natural science partly in reaction to Eleatic puzzles and arguments.

Değişim Yönetiminde Önemli Olan Dinozorlaşmamak: Dinozor Sendromu

Change in business organizations may emerge due to both economic and environmental conditions. Another condition that necessitates change is technological developments. The subject of change is sometimes tried to be prevented by being exposed to the employees' resistance. This study aims to examine the conceptual framework of the dinosaur syndrome in the context of change management. We thought that employees' dislike of change and innovations and attempt to prevent them leads them to dinosaur syndrome. Dinosaur syndrome refers to the resistance to change that can be seen in business organizations along with individuals. It should not be forgotten that the basis of the dinosaur syndrome seen in business organizations is also the employees. Dinosaur syndrome emerges in three stages. The first stage consists of encountering, confrontation, and disharmony, and the second stage of resistance to change and rejection of change. And finally, the third stage consists of clumsiness-downsizing, extinction, transformation into another organization. In conclusion, the success of change depends on placing the change as a lifestyle in the business culture, including employees in the change processes as much as possible, and their participative management approach.

Acompañamiento Docente en Proyectos Informáticos de Desarrollo de Software para el Usuario Final en una Institución de Educación Superior

La mayoría de los proyectos informáticos de desarrollo de software no terminan en el tiempo o costo estimado, además el usuario final no queda completamente satisfecho con el producto entregado, por lo anterior el objetivo fue exponer de forma documental cuales son los factores de éxito y fracaso de los diseños, además cómo estos factores relacionan al usuario final y el impacto en su desarrollo. Como fuente de información se analizaron 15 documentos, reportes publicados por The Standish Group de 1994 hasta 2015, por ser una organización encargada de estos estudios, además del reporte “Chaos Report”, el cual proporcionó una visión global de estadísticas de procesos informáticos. El método de recopilación de estudios existentes permitió un análisis de causas documentadas del fracaso; posteriormente pudo clasificar causas relacionadas con el usuario o cliente final, sobresaliendo: falta de participación adecuada, escasez de involucramiento, carencia en retroalimentación, usuarios con pobres habilidades de comunicación, expectativas poco realistas del usuario, falta de gestión de expectativa final, requerimientos incompletos, carencia de actitudes y rechazo al cambio. Como aportación final, presentó un procedimiento a través del acompañamiento docente como herramienta para resolver problemas a través de enseñanza práctica en proyectos realizados por estudiantes de una IES para el cliente final, tomando en cuenta las recomendaciones propuestas y los factores que originan el fracaso de los planes, garantizando que el usuario final sea parte del éxito.

Экономический рост, образование и терроризм: опыт количественного анализа

Quantitative cross-national tests using negative binomial regression confrm the existence of a curvilinear relationship between the amount of people receiving an education and the level of terrorist activity in certain countries. In countries with the lowest level of educational modernization, the growth of education is accompanied by a signifcant trend towards an increase in the intensity of terrorist activities, and this trend turns out to be signifcant after being controlled for economic development level, type of political regime, unemployment, economic inequality and urbanization. At the same time, a pronounced extreme has been detected given a relatively low but not completely absent quantitative development level of national education systems (corresponding to 3–6 years of schooling on average). In more socio-economically developed countries, a further increase in the years people on average spend receiving education is accompanied by a signifcant trend towards a decrease in the level of terrorist activity. This trend also turns out to be signifcant when controlling for economic development level, type of political regime, unemployment, economic inequality and urbanization. The sharpest decline corresponds to the range of 7–8 years spent on average receiving education. On the one hand, the conducted quantitative analysis allows us to make an optimistic conclusion, in that a further increase in the years people on average spend receiving education – together with further economic development of the middle and high income countries – can indeed become one of the factors which will lead to a decrease in the level of terrorist activity in these countries. The analysis also shows that, for further reduction of the level of terrorist activity (in addition to the growth of the level of education), a decrease in the level of unemployment, economic inequality, the spread of consolidated democratic political regimes and the reduction of the amount of factional conflict partial democracies can also play a signifcant role. At the same time, the growth of economic inequality and the level of unemployment, the rejection of change in the world by traditionalist members of the population – all of this may become the cause for an increase in the level of terrorist violence in frst world countries.

EXAMINING ORTHODOXY IN THE UPPER SAN JUAN REGION OF THE NORTHERN SOUTHWEST

Conventional interpretations of architecture and artifacts have concluded that the Ancestral Puebloans of the Upper San Juan (or uplands of the Eastern Mesa Verde) region were slow to respond to cultural changes that were occurring in the Central Mesa Verde region to the west and Chaco/Cibola region to the South. Rather than being a “cultural backwater,” this paper examines the idea that these groups practiced an orthodox form of the Puebloan lifeway, rejecting the changes that were occurring elsewhere in the northern Southwest. During the Pueblo II period (A.D. 900–1150), this orthodoxy is evident in the retention of material culture and architecture that is reminiscent of earlier time periods, such as plain gray ceramics and pit structures. The rejection of change in the Upper San Juan region is significant because it argues for a socially diverse landscape inhabited by both progressive groups accepting of change and groups that had a more conservative attitude toward change over time.

Autism and the Interplay of Deterministic and Quantum Information Processing in the Act of Creation

Autistics’ preference for invariant knowledge and their rejection of change led the author to hypothesize that the ability to preserve known schemes is a necessary but insufficient element for developing the human capacity to solve problems, uncover new truths, and recreate the world. This proposition can be falsified by examining two derivatives. The first one is that autistics’ ability to pass recognition tests arises from an undivided attention and intention that value the truths one recognizes and reject what contradicts that information—similar to the deterministic stance of classical computational logic. The second derivative is that autistics fail false-belief tests because they lack the divided attention and intention that value simultaneously what one knows and what contradicts that knowledge—which is analogous to the ambiguity that surrounds quantum phenomena. Research on autism may lead to an understanding of the interplay of deterministic and quantum information processing in the act of creation.

Understanding Context: Transculturation and Imposed Change

Community development is a long process of inquiry, program development, and deployment. There are many impediments to successful development, and many methods for implementing change. One issue that often thwarts development is the rejection of change through transculturation by the community. Understanding and modeling transculturation can improve development by increasing the predictability of stakeholders response to change, and providing a template for designing change that is congruent with existing cultural norms.

Tribalism, Loss and Grief: Issues for Multiprofessional Education

This paper examines tensions between a sense of loss of professional identity and drivers for change in achieving multiprofessional education and practice. Key ideas of Marris (1986), including feelings of ambivalence and ‘the conservative impulse’, are used as a framework for the paper and are linked to the vivid anthropological metaphor of ‘tribalism' (Beattie, 1994; 1995). The issues are considered to be important for innovations in multiprofessional education since they point to a dilemma which cannot be safely ignored. Legitimate expressions of resistance, arising from confusing expressions of ambivalence, conflict and grief, occur when boundaries of distinct groups appear to come under threat from integration of various professional groups and tribalism is often viewed as a negative expression of retreat and rejection of change. However, both can be seen as legitimate laments for betrayed traditions with elements of bereavement processes. As such they present a challenge for educationalists to adopt teaching methods conducive to open discussion and expression of feelings in a safe and non-judgemental atmosphere. Teaching in the affective domain recognises the legitimacy of cultural continuity and the need for professionals to wake transitions towards collaborative, professional, health care practices. The author concludes that the need to maintain the self-confidence of different professional groups is very real, as are the possibilities of failure if the issues of professional traditions are ignored.

Job experience, persuasion strategy and resistance to change: An experimental study

Resistance to attitude and behaviour change in organizational settings has been a consistent challenge for applied social psychology, especially since the study by Coch and French (1948) demonstrated the possible effectiveness of worker participation in decision-making. However, there is a lack of experimental studies which preserve features of the organization while studying change. Examination of previous research suggests that two variables, job experience and persuasion strategy, may be of critical importance in determining acceptance or rejection of the change. The present study reports on the experimental effects of these variables in a simulated organization. Job experience is a critical compounding variable in determining the acceptance or rejection of change (cf. Cummings 1982 review). One possible measure of experience, time on the job, has been shown to affect: commitment to organization (Pfeffer and Lawler, 1980), the strength of individual desires in organizations (Alderfer and Guzzo, 1979), and job satisfaction (Katz, 1978). Time on the job, however, does not provide information about the actual experience with a specific work procedure. Two individuals may spend approximately the same time on a job, yet one of them may gain more direct experience in performing certain procedures. It could well be that among veteran workers resistance to change in a procedure is more a function of this direct experience than of time on the job per se . The present study attempted to address

A Factor-Analytic Study of Simplicity-Complexity of Social Ordering

From 80 college sophomores were obtained three measures of simplicity-complexity of social ordering: number of discriminable categories along scales of discrimination applied to persons, number of different bi-polar scales used to discriminate among persons and a rating scale of the level of abstraction of descriptions of a single Other person. Nine attitude measures were given: acceptance vs rejection of change, dogmatism, self-reliance, rationalism, purpose-fulness, rejection of people, abstract sex standard, concrete sex standard, and authoritarianism. The Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale was also given. Three factors which accounted for a total of 89% of the common variance were interpreted. These factors were: (A) Rejection-Acceptance of attitude positions and social stimuli tending to threaten or change the perceptual ordering and belief systems, (B) The imposition of rational, dichotomous order and suppression of spontaneous experiencing to achieve a future goal, and (C) Simplicity-Complexity of social ordering.

INTERCORRELATIONS OF SIMPLICITY-COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL ORDERING, ACCURACY OF PERCEPTION, ACEPTANCE OF CHANGE, SELF-RELIANCE AND SEX ATTITUDE.

From 82 college Ss were obtained three measures developed from a theory of discrimination systems: number of discriminable categories along scales of discrimination applied to persons, number of different bi-polar scales used to discriminate between persons, and a rating of the level of abstraction of descriptions of a single Other person. Three attitude measures, acceptance vs rejection of change as a general, over-riding attitude, reliance upon self vs reliance upon others, and extreme sexual restraint vs affirmation of sexuality, were obtained, and all Ss predicted the choices of a female Other in 40 concrete situations before receiving her actual choice. The hypothesis that all seven of these measures would intercorrelate was not confirmed since the measures formed two clusters.

Lagging Emulation in Post‐Peasant Society1

THIS paper has two purposes: one is to suggest that a particular process of social and cultural change occurs commonly enough and has important enough consequences to be worthy of being identified and given a distinctive name; and the second is to illustrate, using contemporary Greek data, the possible value of the concept for studies of change in rural populations emerging from the status of peasantry. I call this concept lagging emulation. The emulation in question is the process whereby social groups of lower prestige, upon the acquisition of new wealth or other forms of opportunity, imitate and often successfully acquire what they conceive to be the behavior of those with greater prestige; the emulation lags in that the behavior imitated is that which reached its acme as a prestige symbol for the higher social group at an earlier period in its history, and is now obsolescent. Lagging emulation occurs, then, under conditions in which the groups which constitute the traditional elites or which are otherwise considered worthy of emulation are themselves acquiring new ways at the same time that the traditionally less advantaged groups are enabled to alter their previous patterns of life. The concept and its phrasing are of course influenced both by the ideas of Thorstein Veblen and also by Charles Erasmus' recent extension of some of them for his discussion of the acceptance or rejection of change in underdeveloped countries (Erasmus 1961:13 and passim). The concept of lagging emulation is based on the assumptions that the desire for prestige, or social status, or achievement is a basic motive in all cultures and societies; that to some extent this motive enters into the conscious awareness of the participants in a society-it becomes a felt need, in Erasmus' terms (Erasmus 1961: 12-13, 309); and that a frequently occurring means for satisfying the need is to emulate the behavior of those strata of society to which prestige is already firmly attached (cf. Foster 1962: 147-150). Examples of the phenomenon, without a special term for it to be sure, have appeared in the literature, and some of these may clarify the idea. Many writers on caste in India have noted that as village lower castes develop some wealth or power, they assume some of the obsolescent customs of higher castes. The lower caste may imitatively start to increaSe the authority of the father and husband and to tighten the restrictions on wives at just about the time that higher castes are beginning, as a means of increasing their prestige in a newly developing international community, to loosen the traditional authority and restrictions (Cohn 1955:67-68). Srinivas, in his discussions of religiously inspired traits in India, characterizes as an ... interesting contradiction of modern Hindu social life [the fact] that while Brahmins are becoming more and