driving and restraining forces

[Casiocalc]

I don't really understand the driving and restraining forces, can someone explain it to me? 

[Damoz.G]

I'm gonna put it simply for you.

* Driving Force - Stakeholders who SUPPORT the change. "Drive" is used to describe someone who pushes for the change to occur.
* Restraining Force - Stakeholders who are AGAINST the change. "Restrain" is used to describe some who is hesitant about change, and will attempt to stop it from occuring.

The change could be anything!

[tcstudent]

Damoz is killing in in this section haha, to add to his excellent answer

Driving Force examples - having adequate financial reserves to make the change successful, gaining full support by your employees throughout the change, technology such as new technology evolving therefore has the abillity to increase an organisations competitiveness and productivity.

Restraining Force examples- These can also be the opposite to driving forces such as not having adequate financial reserves to make the change successful, Staff hesitant  to change as they believe their job security may be at risk and lastly legislation may act as a driving force as it can restrict change due to the organisation having to comply with the new legislation implemented, hope both our answer helped.

[Damoz.G]

Damoz is killing in in this section haha, to add to his excellent answer

LOL! Thank you. It actually helps me though as well.

When I explain a topic to someone, it actually helps me because then I know the topic as well to be able to explain it in the first place. It's very hard to phrase this sentence correctly. Don't worry if you don't understand what I mean. HAHA!

BTW, good use of an example in your answer!

[tcstudent]

LMFAO, i understand what you mean, i did it with couple of my mates for the CORE on further maths, however it helped me because i showed them how to do it, but in the end they never turned up to class so they scored like 4 marks lol

[Mafioso]

Damoz is killing in in this section haha, to add to his excellent answer

Driving Force examples - having adequate financial reserves to make the change successful, gaining full support by your employees throughout the change, technology such as new technology evolving therefore has the abillity to increase an organisations competitiveness and productivity.

Restraining Force examples- These can also be the opposite to driving forces such as not having adequate financial reserves to make the change successful, Staff hesitant  to change as they believe their job security may be at risk and lastly legislation may act as a driving force as it can restrict change due to the organisation having to comply with the new legislation implemented, hope both our answer helped.

Great answer! Also, I'm pretty sure that these forces are not limited to the nature of the 'stakeholders'..

[Casiocalc]

Thank you so much guys! You've really helped me understand it more!

[Damoz.G]

Also, I'm pretty sure that these forces are not limited to the nature of the 'stakeholders'..

Well a Stakeholder is any person or group that has a vested or direct interest in an organisation. This includes, management, employees, corporate culture, policies, customers, competitors, community, macro forces - Basically ANYONE! So if you have an interest in an organisation's decision on a particular action, you become a stakeholder.

So forces ARE limited to Stakeholders.

[Mafioso]

Well a Stakeholder is any person or group that has a vested or direct interest in an organisation. This includes, management, employees, corporate culture, policies, customers, competitors, community, macro forces - Basically ANYONE! So if you have an interest in an organisation's decision on a particular action, you become a stakeholder.

So forces ARE limited to Stakeholders.

Yes I agree that corporate culture, policies and macro forces are forces, but I don't see how we can classify these as stakeholders.
According to the definition, these aren't 'people or groups of people'.

I also thought forces can be things such as available resources, desires, costs, specific events etc and I'm pretty sure that these also cannot be termed stakeholders.

[Jason12]

Things like organisational inertia (ability to respond to internal and external pressures), time and costs can also be classified as driving and restraining forces but don't count as stakeholders