anxiety
The awareness that events lie outside one's range of understanding or control. I believe
the problem here is that individuals are unable to adequately picture the future. They
do not have enough information to allow them to anticipate behaving in a different way
within the new organisation. They are unsure how to adequately construe acting in the
new work and social situations. There is also the possibility for what McCoy (1977)
defined as 'bewilderment' here; which she defined as an awareness of an imminent,
comprehensive change in our non-core structure. How we then deal with this dictates
how we progress through the rest of the curve and the extent of the impact on our core
sense of self.