Assessment on the Relation between Individual Difference with Dispositional Resistance to Change and Re-Engineering the Organizational Structure in Order to Access on Technology in Guilan Province Gas Company

Abstract

The purpose of this study is Evaluation the relationship between the individual components of employee resistance to change and organizational re-engineering technologies in order to achieve Gas Company of Guilan. This is a descriptive-analysis study and is a survey; also it has an applied goal. The article proposes and tests a model of resistance to organizational change. Contrary to most works on resistance, resistance was conceptualized here as a multifaceted construct. Relationships among resistance components and employees’ personalities, the organizational context, and several work-related outcomes were examined. The study population consisted of 196 of customers of dairy products industry focused on Guilan. They are selected in random sampling. Content validity of the questionnaire was approved by faculty advisors and the reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The collected data are analyzed by the Lisrel software. So in order to test this hypothesis we use Confirmatory factor analysis test and path analysis. Findings show that the both personality and context have been found to significantly associate with employees’ attitudes towards a large-scale organizational change. These attitudes were, in turn, significantly associated with employees’ job-satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intention to leave the organization.