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Readiness for Change: Implications on Employees' Relationship with Management, Job Knowledge and Skills, and Job Demands
Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship (2006)
  • Duane Miller, Utah Valley University
  • Susan R. Madsen, Utah Valley University
  • Cameron John, Utah Valley University
Abstract
This article addresses how employees' readiness/willingness to change is influenced by three workplace factors-management/leader relationship, job knowledge and skills, and job demands. Statistical analyses were completed based on a two-part survey given to 464 employees from four companies. The research findings indicated that all three of these workplace factors had an influence on employees' readiness for change. But employees' relationship with their managers was the strongest predictor of readiness for change. This paper reports the results of a new study that used Hanpachern's framework but made extensive changes in the test instrument, sample size, and other methodology techniques to increase this generalizability. Because the relationship between work and nonwork domains continues to be of great interest to researchers and employers, the authors felt that continuing the attention given to these domains was important.
Keywords
  • Individual Readiness,
  • Readiness for Change,
  • Relationships
Publication Date
2006
Citation Information
Duane Miller, Susan R. Madsen and Cameron John. "Readiness for Change: Implications on Employees' Relationship with Management, Job Knowledge and Skills, and Job Demands" Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship Vol. 11 Iss. 1 (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/susan_madsen/31/