A manufacturing company has implemented an across-the-board cost-cutting strategy. The company's goal is to reduce expenses by 10 percent without sacrificing product quality. The decision was made by the company's top management without input from its employees. How are its employees likely to show their resistance to the organizational change?
A) insincere agreement
B) in-your-face defiance
C) sabotage
D) malicious compliance
E) all of the above

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Employees may resist organizational change in various ways, including insincere agreement (pretending to agree while actually disagreeing), in-your-face defiance (openly refusing to comply), sabotage (intentionally harming the company's operations or products), and malicious compliance (following orders in a way that causes harm). These reactions can stem from feeling excluded from the decision-making process and a lack of ownership over the changes.

A Manufacturing Company Has Implemented an Across-The-Board Cost-Cutting Strategy