Organisational Change Literature Review

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In her literature review, Chio (2011) explains how studies on organisational change focus on attitudinal constructs that represent employees’ attitudes toward change, such as readiness for change. She explains how employees evaluate the need for organisational change and to what extend they are likely to have positive implications for them specifically and the organisation in a more holistic sense. This is then what comprises individual readiness for organisational change (Choi, 2011). A popular definition of readiness is that it is an individual’s “beliefs, attitudes, and intentions regarding the extent to which changes are needed and the organisation’s capacity to successfully undertake those changes” (Armenakis, Harris, & Mossholder, 1993:…show more content…
Their findings included responses from 556 staff members and found that job-satisfaction is a good indicator for change readiness. More specifically, they found that factors such as salary and promotion may lead to initial attachment with the organisation or job-satisfaction and that attitudinal behaviours such as organisational loyalty and organisational identification are what create long-term job-satisfaction and thus greater engagement with change efforts (Shah, Irani & Sharif, 2017). Employees perception of organisational support has been shown to influence the extent to which they regard an organisational change as justified (Self et al, 2007). Ming-Chu (2009) studied how employees’ perceptions of organisational change are influenced by trust and stress management strategies. He found that organisational change had negative effects on employees’ trust and job involvement, but an understanding of organisational change and stress management strategies were factors that would have positive influences on…show more content…
Augustsson, Richter, Hasson & von Thiele Schwarz (2017) studied openness to change which they explain has been regarded as a similar construct as readiness for change. They found that although there were individual differences in openness to change, individuals who perceive that their work group has high openness to change, are more likely to follow the group's lead (Augustsson et al, 2017). This could mean that people who belong to the same work-group have shared thoughts and perceptions about the changes that then affect the outcome of the change. If this is true and individuals adjust their thoughts and behaviour depending on how they perceive their group dynamics, then studying readiness for change at the group level is even more important. Management should according to these findings pay attention to preparing work-groups for changes rather than focusing merely on the

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