The influence of transformational Leadership, organizational culture, and personality on employee resistance to change within a manufacturing organization in Cape Town

Abstract

Various reasons exist as to why change initiatives in organizations fail. Some research studies indicate that 60-70% of planned change initiatives fail due to performance not meeting the required expectations or plans not simply being implemented. Given this new reality of change, changing organizations is becoming increasingly difficult, due to the difficulty in understanding the internal complexities of organizational change. Change remains complex and unpredictable in the organizational context, whether it is related to the market the organization finds itself in or global scale changes such as the era of the Fourth Industrial revolution.