Do you agree or disagree with these results?
The first part of the questionnaire
is routine seeking. It is routine incorporation in the life of someone (Theorizeit, n.d.). It
is a component of behavior giving change resistance as a result of having tendency
to accept routines (Oreg, 2003), (sjdm, n.d.). The results of the questionnaire
gives me the score of 14. Of the available five questions in the routing seeking
part, on average, my result is 14 / 5 = 2.8 which is near to 3. In the scale,
the rules of agreement are based on the following criteria:
1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. Inclined to disagree
4. Inclined to agree
5. Agree
6. Strongly disagree
Based on my quantitative analysis, the
questionnaire result gives answer 3 meaning that I inclined to disagree with
routing seeking which also means that it says I inclined to disagree on the
fact that a tendency to accept routine resists someone to change. In reality, I
actually strongly agree with the good routine activities and strongly disagree
to change it. If there are other good routines, I agree to change. Therefore, I
partially agree and disagree with the result of the questionnaire.
The
second part of the questionnaire is emotional reaction. It is a component of
affection giving change resistance as a result of induced amount of uncomfortable
and stressful feelings (Oreg, 2003), (sjdm, n.d.). Of the available four
questions in the emotional reaction part, on average, my result is 20/4 which
is exactly equal to 5. Based on this quantitative analysis and the above
criteria, the questionnaire result gives answer 5 meaning that I agree with
emotional reaction or agree with affective component giving change resistance
as a result of induced uncomfortable and stressful feelings. In reality, everyone
including me strongly agree stressful and uncomfortable things can resist
everyone to change. This means I little bit disagree with the questionnaire results
but tend to agree with the result in general.
The third
part of the questionnaire is the short term focus. It is a component of affection
giving change resistance as a result of short time inconveniences distracting
individuals (Oreg, 2003), (sjdm, n.d.). Of the available four questions in the short
term focus part, on average, my result is 10/4 = 2.25 which is relatively near
to 2. Based on this quantitative analysis and the above criteria, the questionnaire
result gives answer 2 meaning I disagree with the issue that short inconvenience
distracting individuals resist everyone to change. In reality, I also strongly
disagree with the short term focus. This means I agree with the result of the questionnaire.
The
last part of the questionnaire is cognitive rigidity. It is a component of cognition
giving change resistance based on how less frequently and how uneasily people
change their minds (Oreg, 2003), (sjdm, n.d.). Of the available four questions
in the short term focus part, on average, my result is 19/4 = 4.75 which is relatively
near to 5. Based on this quantitative analysis and the above criteria, the questionnaire
result gives answer 5 meaning I agree with the issue that changing minds is not
easy and is not frequently done if there is lack of evidence. In reality, I strongly
agree with the fact that some changes which need to be done require strong
enough arguments and evidence. Therefore, I have a tendency to agree with the questionnaire
result.
What areas seem accurate, which do not?
Based on the analysis of accuracy
the agreement and disagreement paragraphs, the routine seeking result is
partially accurate since I am partially agree and partially disagree with the
result, the emotional reaction result tends to be accurate since I have
tendency to agree with the result, the short term focus is mostly accurate
since I agree with the result, and the cognitive rigidity tends to be accurate
since I have a tendency to agree with the questionnaire result.
Give an example of a change situation in which you were
recently involved. Did you resist? Why or why not? What was the ultimate outcome?
The most currently difficult
situation of mine is the possibility for me to get a visa to continue my PhD in
the Geophysics – the College of petroleum and geoscience (CPG) at KFUPM. I don’t
want to stop my hope to get this visa. This means I resist the change from having
a hope to becoming hopeless because of this covid 19 outbreak and my own health
condition. I do resist stopping my hope because of the fact that my status has
been changed from conditional to be regular one since I already fulfilled all
requirements. In relation to the theories of the questionnaire, routine
activities of learning and teaching in PhD studies will totally un-resist me to
change my hope. In fact, I become more comfort with this routine activities
since I love studying and teaching. My
emotional reaction concerning uncomfortable and stressful life of a graduate
student in taking courses which have a lot of assignments and exams will not
resist my hope since the assignments and exams are really good to improve my
skills and knowledge. In addition, the short term focus as a result of a short inconvenience
of this covid outbreak hopefully will not stay for a long time due to the willingness
of Saudi government to win the struggle with this global problem. The last analytical
theory of the cognitive rigidity is related to the existence of newly developed
and established vaccines as a good evidence to resist stopping my hope on
getting the visa. Ultimately, I hope that resisting to stop getting the visa
will return me back to the KFUPM campus soon after I left it in 2018 and I can
get a chance to study in the PhD program to improve my skills, knowledge, and
incomes to bring my mother for hajj, to get married and having a happy family
and sons, to rebuild my mother store and my future house, to buy a good and
beneficial transportation media, to help poor people, to give scholarships, to
be a good and helpful leader and bureaucrat in the future, and finally to get
good life in the hereafter.
References
Theorizeit. (n.d.). Variable Details: Routine
seeking. Retrieved January 07, 2021, from https://inn.theorizeit.org/Details/Variable/4418
Oreg, S. (2003). Resistance to change:
Developing an individual differences measure. Journal of Applied Psychology,
88(4), 680-693. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.88.4.680
Sjdm. (n.d.). Resistance to
Change (RTC). Retrieved January 07, 2021, from http://www.sjdm.org/dmidi/Resistance_to_Change.html
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