Understanding Resistance to Change: An Experiential Exercise

Varma, Virajanand

doi:10.1177/2379298119831412

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“…In the experiential teaching method, teachers no longer simply impart theoretical knowledge but need to guide students to think deeply, help students find problems, and analyze problems and try to solve them. It is also in line with the cognitive needs of contemporary college students to experience and verify knowledge through their own perception and cognition [11][12][13][14][15].…”

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Application of Experiential Education Based on Modern Teaching Concept in College Management

Ding

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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Experiential teaching is based on modern teaching approaches, including the construction of knowledge, the generation of emotion, and the development of ability through students’ personal experiences. Compared with traditional teaching, it has characteristics of autonomy, practice, and interaction. This is conducive to promote students’ autonomous learning, speeding up the transfer of knowledge and experience, and improving students’ personal comprehensive ability. There are various forms of experiential teaching methods in management teaching, but they should be selected reasonably according to the teaching contents. In the actual application of experiential teaching, teachers should carefully design teaching plans, pay attention to comments and summaries, and ensure the unity of theoretical teaching and experiential learning. This research work investigates experiential teaching based on modern teaching concepts and explores three application mechanisms of the experiential teaching method in the first stage. In the second stage, it proposes an algorithm to evaluate the promotion of experiential education based on modern teaching concepts in college management. The proposed algorithm is named improved gray wolf optimization-Back Propagation (IGWO-BP). IGWO balances the full search and the local search through a nonlinear convergence factor and makes the leadership gray wolf dynamically guide the population forward through a variable proportional weight. Then, IGWO is used to optimize the BP network to improve evaluation accuracy and convergence speed. Compared with the state-of-the-art machine learning methods, the proposed mechanism achieves the highest accuracy of 94.6% and an F1 score of 91.3%.

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confidence: 70%

Application of Experiential Education Based on Modern Teaching Concept in College Management

Ding

2022

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“…4 Literature supports the findings that inclusiveness and involvement of stakeholders in the process of change reduce the challenges and improve the productivity of the process. 19 An inclusive approach at the workplace helps establish shared identity across groups, and, hence, can reduce conflicting behaviour. Inclusive practice enables collaborations, and encourages social bonding and mutual connectedness.…”

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Social intelligence in health professions educationists: how it helps to deal with challenges at the workplace? a mixed-method study

Abbasi,

Yasmeen,

Ali

2024

J Pak Med Assoc

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Objective: To identify the social intelligence of medical educationists, and the coping strategies used to deal with workplace challenges. Method: The mixed-method study with an explanatory sequential design was conducted from March 15 to July 30, 2021, after approval from the ethics review committee of Riphah International University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and comprised medical educationists working in medical and dental colleges and institutions across the country. Data was collected using Tromso social intelligence scale in the quantitative phase. The socially intelligent educationists were identified, and were interviewed. Qualitative data was subjected to thematic analysis to identify predominant themes explaining the coping strategies used. Results: In the quantitative phase, there were 80 participants; 51(63.7%) females and 29(36.3%) males, with 24(30%) having >10 years of professional experience. Of them, 11(13.8%) scored low, 54(67.5%) moderate and 15(18.8%) high on the social intelligence scale. In the qualitative phase, there were 13 subjects; 9(69.2%) females and 4(30.8%) males. There were 4 themes identified as coping strategies; inspire respect and trust, bringing readiness before a change, a collaborative and inclusive approach, and soft skills. Conclusion: Variation was seen in the levels of social intelligence among medical educationists working in academic institutions. Those with high levels of social intelligence used their non-cognitive soft skills to manage workplace challenges. Key Words: Social intelligence, Medical education, Workplace, Coping strategies, Coping skills.

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“…The Wastewater case is related to, but distinct from, other published examples in the management education literature on the topic of organizational change. For instance, several researchers have focused on exercises that address how individuals can be change agents for their own lives (e.g., Bridgman, 2020; Varma, 2020). Other organizational change activities focus on the role of individuals or teams acting as change agents for the greater good of the unit (Rollag & Parise, 2005; Trefalt, 2020).…”

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Wastewater Wars: Using Persuasion Tactics to Overcome Cognitive Distortions

Breer

Perry

Morgan

et al. 2022

Management Teaching Review

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We describe a short, interactive case-based activity for illustrating cognitive distortions of communication underlying resistance to change. Based on a real-life story, the case describes a failed effort by the mayor of Toowoomba, Australia to fund a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant. After reading the case, students work individually and in small groups to identify examples of cognitive distortions in the communication between the mayor’s office and the citizens of Toowoomba and then suggest better approaches based on evidence-based principles of persuasion. The Wastewater case is both engaging and versatile and has proven popular for students in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education courses. We discuss learning objectives, provide step-by-step instructions for running the activity, describe variations and adaptations for online courses, and include suggestions for debriefing the activity.

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Understanding Resistance to Change: An Experiential Exercise

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Application of Experiential Education Based on Modern Teaching Concept in College Management

Application of Experiential Education Based on Modern Teaching Concept in College Management

Social intelligence in health professions educationists: how it helps to deal with challenges at the workplace? a mixed-method study

Wastewater Wars: Using Persuasion Tactics to Overcome Cognitive Distortions

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