After restructuring, your division has had trouble filling the open positions with appropriate candidates. The selection processes used by human resources have not yet adjusted to the new criteria required for the restructured job positions. This problem is an example of which kind of resistance to change?

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Milagros Avila

3 January, 19:21

After restructuring, your division has had trouble filling the open positions with appropriate candidates. The selection processes used by human resources have not yet adjusted to the new criteria required for the restructured job positions. This problem is an example of which kind of resistance to change?

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Laddie · Answer 1

Answer: Structural inertia

Explanation: Structural inertia refers to the connection or link between the level or standard of an organization and that of it's environment. Structural inertia results from a change in the structural component of an organization without a corresponding adjustment in some other aspects of the organization resulting in undue resistance to structural change.

In the scenario above, organizational restructuring should be accompanied with a change in the hiring process in other to accommodate or employ employees who fit the new structural requirement.

Julia Hickman · Answer 2

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structural inertial

Explanation

Structural inertia can be described or explained as a situation whereby a particular class of organizations might have high inertia in the context of one environment but not in another.

Note that inertia is described as a persistent organizational resistance to changing architectural features.

Therefore, it should be understood that structural inertia in organizational populations can be explained as an outcome of an ecological-evolutionary process.

In this case, the problem facing after restructuring is an example of structural inertia.