Employee Specific Attributes for Managing Organisational Change: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Organizational change is indispensible for an organization to be competitive in current fast changing business environment.  There are various factors affecting effective and efficient management of organizational change, however, employee related factors have a profound effect on efforts for managing organisational change. There are few scales available for measuring a number of employee attributes that are important for successfully managing change in an organisation. Most of the available scales measure a single employee related factor affecting change management. The present study has aimed for measuring multiple employee related factors. An empirical study has been conducted in Indian business organization which has resulted into providing the underlying five factor structure of managing organizational change which is found reliable and has construct validity. Further, the study also proposes a scale for measuring change related employee attributes that facilitate in managing change.