John R. P. French

"A majority of all grievances presented at Harwood have always stemmed from a change situation."

"The phenomena of power and influence involve a dyadic relation between two agents which may be viewed from two points of view: What determines the behavior of the agent who exerts power? What determin…"

"Accordingly one finds in political science, in sociology, and in social psychology a variety of distinctions among different types of social power or among qualitatively different processes of social …"

"On the basis of the preliminary theory that resistance to change is a combination of an individual reaction to frustration with strong group-induced forces it seemed that the most appropríate methods …"

"This is a report of an actual industrial experiment designed to determine why workers resisted job changes and what could be done about the problem. The research arose out of the need to change indust…"

"By the basis of power we mean the relationship between O and P which is the source of that power. It is rare that we can say with certainty that a given empirical case of power is limited to one sourc…"

"The processes of power are pervasive, complex, and often disguised in our society."

"From the point of view of factory management, there were two purposes to the research: Why do people resist change so strongly? and What can be done to overcome this resistance?"