Influence of Employee Attitude on Employee Readiness for Organizational Change
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
After more than three decades of civil war in the north and eastern provinces, number of changes has been introduced by the government of Sri Lanka focusing on a fast and significant development in the education sector. Researchers and practitioners have both found employee readiness to be a critical factor in successful change efforts. This study was conducted with a main objective to examine the influence of employee attitude on employee readiness for organizational change, focusing on the government schools in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. The sample of this study was the teachers of government schools in the Eastern Province. Hence the primary data was collected from 100 teachers from the study area by using a survey questionnaire. Further it was analyzed using the method of descriptive analysis to explore the nature of the sample group, and bivariate analysis was performed to assess the relationships between the study variables. The Results of this study revealed that the employee attitude was significantly and positively correlated with employee readiness for organizational change. Furthermore the findings of this study provide empirical evidence and also contribute to the existing body of knowledge for employee readiness predictor variables for organizational change.
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Anthony Andrew
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- EP ID EP338539
- DOI 10.9734/AJEBA/2017/37126
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