Resistência a mudanças em bibliotecários de Universidades: uma análise na UFMG e na UFRGS

Abstract

A descriptive-exploratory study aiming to identify the existence of factors of resistence to organizational changes on the part of academic librarians and their ways of handling innovations at work. The academic library is featured as a social organization of services which has to 90 along with the alterations and evolution of the broader environment it is part of. Organizational changes are characterized by their objectives and types. presenting derived reasons for resistence. The way these factors make themselves evident are analysed in the environment of academic libraries. Results of the research reveal that librarians favorably accept changes in their work environment. although some factors of resistence may be detected in their activity.