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21058806

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-22
pubmed:abstractText
Following an analysis of the concept of "imposed change," we propose 2 factors that jointly contribute to an individual's experience of ambivalence to imposed change. In a secondary analysis of data (N = 172) and 2 field studies (N = 104, N = 89), we showed that individuals' personal orientation toward change interacts with their orientation toward the change agent and yields ambivalence. Specifically, among employees with a positive orientation toward the change agent (i.e., high trust in management, identification with the organization), the relationship between employees' dispositional resistance to change and ambivalence was positive. The opposite pattern emerged among employees with a negative orientation toward the change agent (Studies 2 and 3). Our findings suggest that researchers may have been misinterpreting employees' reactions to change, neglecting the possibility that some may simultaneously hold strong, yet conflicting, views about the change. By accounting for, and predicting, ambivalence, these studies provide a more accurate explanation of employees' responses to change.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1939-1854
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
96
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
337-49
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Ambivalence toward imposed change: the conflict between dispositional resistance to change and the orientation toward the change agent.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel. oreg@soc.haifa.ac.il
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't