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Influence of Organizational Culture and Commitment on Attitudes Toward Change

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Attitude; Change; Commitment; Culture; Organization; Supervisor; Telecommunication

Definition

Attitude toward change refers to an employee’s overall positive or negative evaluative judgment of a change initiative.

Introduction

In the last few years, organizations had come under intense pressure to initiate change in a bid to cope with technological advancement (Ahmad and Cheng 2018). Although some organizations implement change in order to survive, they often face serious problems through change implementation process which results in failure to achieve intended change objectives (Hassan et al. 2020). According to Beer and Nohria (2000), two-thirds of all change initiatives fail. One major cause of the failure of organizational change is related to employee attitudes toward change (Choi 2011). Extant literature further contends that many change efforts had not been successful because change agent often failed to recognize the influential role of organizational employees in...

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

    Aaron Kweku Amanor

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Amanor, A.K. (2021). Influence of Organizational Culture and Commitment on Attitudes Toward Change. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4354-1

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