Identification of Organizational Change Factors in Higher Education Institution (Cases at New Public Universities in Indonesia)

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine what factors are most contributing greatly to the change of college organizations that originally private university into the public university, the latent variable used is organizational change. 
 Methodology: The survey was conducted to 128 lecturers at several new public universities located on Java island by using questionnaires as the main data collection tool. The statistical tool used is Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to confirm the constructs of latent variables.
 Findings: Structure, culture, and resources owned by an organization will be an important factor in shaping institutional change of higher education institution when transformed from private to public. The resource becomes one of the constructs that have the greatest role in the organizational change of higher education institutions.
 Research limitations/implications: This study is limited to the proving of organizational change in the higher education institution only. In addition, it should also be investigated the direction of causality relationship by including other variables such as job satisfaction, organizational performance, and others.
 Practical implications: In this study, organizational changes reflected by changes in structure, culture, and resources must always be considered by conducting regular evaluations by management to identify which factors have a positive or negative impact of changes that occur either on changes in structure, culture or resources.
 Originality/value: This research is testing of constructor model of organizational change variable that uses three main factors namely structure, culture, and resources