5.8 High-risk Strategies

What are High-risk Strategies?

an autocratic approach to overcoming employee resistance that may succeed in the short term but damaging in the long term

What is Manipulation?

providing incomplete or selective information about the transformation to get employees to do what you want

What is Threat? (+ 2 examples)

forcing employees to participate in change by stating that they may or will cause harm to them if they fail to do so eg. loss of promotion, termination

Advantages of High-risk Strategies? (2)

immediate implementation of change, low cost

Disadvantages of High-risk Strategies (3)

foster negative corporate culture, increase staff absenteeism and turnover, only effective short-term as employees won’t follow the conditions long-term