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Employee Commitment in Times of Change: Assessing the Importance of Attitudes Toward Organizational Change

Department of Psychology, Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL 36124, selias{at}mail.aum.edu

Organizations are dynamic and changing entities. Variables associated with organizational change have been shown to serve as mediators of several individual difference variable/workrelated outcome relationships. This study examines three potential antecedents of 258 police officers' attitudes toward organizational change (ATOC), and whether ATOC mediates the relationships between these antecedents and affective organizational commitment (AOC). At the time of data collection, the officers' police department was restructuring its organizational design. Structural equation modeling indicates the growth need strength/AOC relationship is fully mediated, whereas the locus of control/AOC and internal work motivation/AOC relationships are partially mediated by ATOC. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Key Words: attitudes toward change • organizational change • organizational commitment

This version was published on February 1, 2009

Journal of Management, Vol. 35, No. 1, 37-55 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0149206307308910


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