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Organisational commitment and responses to planned organisational change: An exploratory study

Southern African Business Review

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Title Organisational commitment and responses to planned organisational change: An exploratory study
 
Creator Visagie, CM
Steyn, C
 
Subject organisational change, organisational commitment, personal valence, organisational valence, change readiness
 
Description Previous research has identified organisational commitment as apre-requisite to the successful implementation of organisationalchange. Change managers rely on the commitment of employeeswhen implementing organisational change, but organisationalcommitment may decrease in response to the change. Thisappeared to be the case when a South African telecommunicationsorganisation embarked on an organisational change initiative in2008. The commencement of the change was followed by largescaleemployee resignations, suggesting a possible decline inorganisational commitment as a result of the change. Organisationalchange is complex and is accompanied by cognitive, affectiveand behavioural responses from employees, but little researchhas been conducted to show how these responses are related toorganisational commitment. This study attempts to address thisgap by exploring whether levels of organisational commitment arerelated to employee attitudes towards change, and whether theseattitudes are related to the manner in which employees perceive thechange process. Data were collected from 113 employees through anelectronic survey. The findings indicate that affective and normativecommitment are positively associated with change readiness,personal and organisational valence. Change readiness, personaland organisational valence are, in turn, positively associated withemployee perceptions of change communication and training.
 
Publisher College of Economic and Management Sciences (UNISA)
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2013-02-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76407
 
Source Southern African Business Review; Vol 15, No 3 (2011); 98-121
1998-8125
1561-896X
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76407/66865
 
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