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Introduction
O Focus on individuals emotions and
personality traits during org. change. O Relationship between personality traits and employees attitude towards change. O Contribution of EI to the attitudes to change
Attitudes to Change
O Individuals feelings, thoughts and
predispositions to act towards some aspect of his/her environment O Strong positive attitudes to strong negative attitudes O Emotions and responses to change intensive death and grief O Stages equilibrium, denial, anger, bargaining, chaos, depression, resignation, openness, readiness, and reemergence
top management commitment, allocation of resources, rewards, training, participation in learning and implementation
extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. O Application and use of FFM in org job performance, job commitment, voluntary turnover, absenteeism etc O attitudes to change depends on individuals change schemata O Schemata significantly dependent on personality traits
adjustment O Agreeableness compliant, avoiding tenses and arguments in workplace O Conscientiousness positive attitude towards change O Neuroticism negative attitude to change H1 : Attitude towards org. change will be positively associated to openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and negatively associated with neuroticism
EI in Workplace
O EI ability to monitor ones own and
others emotions to discriminate among them and to use the info. to guide ones thinking and actions. O EI non cognitive intelligence intra-personal skills, inter-personal skills, adaptability, stress management and general mood (optimism, happiness) O people with high levels of EI experience more career success
evidence suggests EI can contribute to competitve advantage. O Individual difference construct of EI has the potential to contribute to a better understanding of the affective implications of a change policy. H2: Attitudes toward org. change will demonstrate positive relationship with use of emotions for problem solving, control of emotion as well as with overall EI Score.
manage change. O Focus also on ability of ppl. to manage his or her emotions at work. O Investigation on how various attributes of personality and EI can facilitate organistaional change at an individual level. H3: EI will explain additional variance of attitudes towards change above and beyond the effect of personality.
Personal Variables
O Iverson employee with low tenure and high
education are more positive towards organizational change. O Cordary positive relationship between years in education and acceptance of org. change. O Iverson no relationship between gender and attitudes to change. H4: tenure will be negatively associated with attitudes towards organizational change. H5: Attitude towards org. change will demonstrate significant association between different levels of education. H6: there will be no significant difference between male and female regarding attitude towards org. change
Findings:
O Confirmed relationships among FFM, EI
and attitudes towards org change proving need for an individual level approach to managing change O Positive relationship between individual characteristics and attitudes to change which contribute to success of change.