workers to understand how new knowledge applies to them and their jobs. Role playing, brainstorming, cooperative learning and critical analysis are techniques used in this innovative learning methodology. In traditional lecture-type methodology listening is the predominant means of acquiring instruction. By nature, human beings tend to become distracted and disinterested in this method. Active learning results in an increased ability to understand, retain, and apply the subject matter to working environments. This methodology prompts creative thinking and perceiving a subject matter from a variety of different or new perspectives. Research suggest that these techniques should be adopted in manufacturing education to increase interest, understanding, retention, and application of instructional information (Weitz, 1995). CONCLUSION Resistance is an inevitable response to any change. People naturally rush to defend the status quo if they feel their security or status is threatened. Change is unnerving to most people even positive change. If mangers do not understand, accept and make an effort to work with resistance, it can undermine even the most well intentioned and otherwise well-conceived changes. There is no one strategy for dealing with resistance. Changes take place in todays workplace and require managers who have strong communication skills to build staff support and strong planning skills to make the changes happen. Managers must also be flexible and adaptable, able to change their own management style and approach to work successfully with the end product of change efforts (Stone, 1995)....
