Nafiseh Sadr; Alireza Khorakian; Gholamreza Malekzadeh
Abstract
Organizations have to innovate and change in current dynamic and complex environment. Organizational change studies show that employees don’t associate in organizational changes and resist to change most of the times. Resistance to change will result to the failure in changing plans. In this study, ...
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Organizations have to innovate and change in current dynamic and complex environment. Organizational change studies show that employees don’t associate in organizational changes and resist to change most of the times. Resistance to change will result to the failure in changing plans. In this study, we are going to investigate the effect of affective commitment on resistance to change through the mediating role of attitudes toward change and readiness for change among the Mellat Bank employees of Mashhad. The descriptive-survey research strategy has been used to conduct study. Data was collected by a standard measurement and was performed by employing AMOS and SPSS. Face validity and content validity were used for testing the validity of measurement and Cronbach’s Alpha for testing the reliability of data. The findings suggest that affective commitment has effects on Resistance to change. Furthermore, the mediating role of attitude towards change and readiness for change-as one of the neglected cases in previous studies-was confirmed.
Adel Salavati; Mostaffa Baghabanian; Rezan Zandi
Volume 22, Issue 72 , March 2014, , Pages 49-73
Abstract
This study was conducted aimed to identify the relationship between organizational forgetting and resistance to change. This study statistical population consisted of the administration's cooperation. The statistical sample has been selected consisted of 200 employees of this department that sampling ...
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This study was conducted aimed to identify the relationship between organizational forgetting and resistance to change. This study statistical population consisted of the administration's cooperation. The statistical sample has been selected consisted of 200 employees of this department that sampling method stratified random proportional to population size.Method of this research is descriptive study , in kinds of the correlation ,with purpose from the applied research. Accordingly ,for measure the basic concepts of research ,Resistance to Change questionnaire of Wayne et al (2001) and Organizational Forgetting questionnaire with reliance on the "Holen and Philips" model (2004) were used. Reliability of questionnaires with Cranach' alpha ,respectively for the two variables ,was calculated to be 0.84 and 0.83 ,and accepted. Test validity too ,with two methods of content validity and construct validity using ,results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and the KMO index was confirmed.Final results of research ,showed significant relationship between organizational Forgetting and its dimensions (Intentional Forgetting, Accidentally Forgetting) with Resistance to Change is studied.