Creating Readiness for Organizational Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9891678 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Achilles A Armenakis (Auburn University, corresponding author), Stanley G Harris (Auburn University), Kevin W Mossholder (0000-0002-3145-8757, Louisiana State University) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 681-703 |
| Publication date | 1993-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872679304600601 |
| OpenAlex | W2096451403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 161 |
| References cited | 31 |
The purpose of this article is to clarify the readiness for change concept and examine how change agents can influence employee readiness for organizational change. The article contributes to an improved understanding of change dynamics in four important ways. First, readiness for change is distinguished from resistance to change. Readiness is described in terms of the organizational members' beliefs, attitudes, and intentions. Second, a model is offered that describes the influence strategies as well as the importance of change agent credibility and interpersonal and social dynamics in the readiness creation process. Third, by combining urgency of, and employee readiness for, needed changes, a typology of readiness programs is offered. Fourth, a large multinational corporation's efforts to create readiness for large-scale change are described to provide a cogent illustration of the various readiness interventions described in the model
Business · Change management (ITSM · Credibility · Interpersonal communication · Knowledge management · Multinational corporation · Organizational change · Political science · Process (computing · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Management Theory and Practice · Marketing · Organizational Learning and Leadership · Psychology · Quality and Supply Management · Social Psychology
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Change Recipients’ Reactions to Organizational Change
Commitment to organizational change
Assessing organizational readiness for change
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Resistance to Change and Change Management in Organizations
Utilization of Information Technology and Interest in Using and Learning Style on Readiness for Change of Leadership Training Participants in the State Administration Institution of Samarinda
Psychological Readiness for Organizational Change and its Socio-Psychological Predictors
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Peran Kesejahteraan di Tempat Kerja terhadap Kesiapan untuk Berubah
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Role of Change Management in Organizational Growth
Hospital organizational change
State-level clustering in PrEP implementation factors among family planning clinics in the Southern United States
Understanding the role of local educational departments in school collaboration for improvement
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Cultivating flexibility
The curvilinear effect of negative affect on voice behavior from the perspective of activation theory
Role of adaptive leadership in learning organizations to boost organizational innovations with change self-efficacy
Illuminating the way
Organisational readiness for workplace bullying interventions
Investigating the role of leader-member exchange for goal commitment in system implementation
Digital learning orientation and innovative behavior in the higher education sector
“A Change Would Do You Good”
Does Entrepreneur's Perception of Business Environment Affect Entrepreneurial Orientation
Newspaper executives’ positioning toward the evolving use of social media
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Encouraging Teacher Readiness for Designing Student Voice Practices
Exploring linkages between organisational culture and gender equality work—An ethnography of a multinational engineering company
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The relationship between buy-in and implementation
Obstacles to continued use of personal health records
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Public Service Motivation and Employee Change-Supportive Intention
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting
Technological readiness during different stages of the pandemic
Perceptions of Technology-Related Job Insecurity among Healthcare Personnel
A Evolução Dos Conceitos E Visões De Responsabilidade Social
Literature Review of Readiness for Change in Ethiopia
Predicting readiness to adopt evidence-based programs for divorcing families
Policy Change Implementation
Support for Innovation in Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform
From leadership-as-practice to leaderful practice
An Exploration of Change Leadership at Public Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia
A New Age of Leadership in Academia
Distributive Leadership Functions, Readiness for Change, and Teachers’ Affective Commitment to Change
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An Organizational Change With Quarantined Members
Development and Validation of a Readiness for Organizational Change Scale
Unlocking Dual-Focused Empowering Leadership Behaviors Toward Multilevel Creativity
Emotional Responses to the Speed, Frequency and Timing of Organizational Change
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Relationship between Self-Esteem and Technological Readiness
Improving community readiness among Iranian local communities to prevent childhood obesity
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Implementation in Family Planning Services Across the Southern United States
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The Impact of Cognitive Flexibility on Resistance to Organizational Change
Leadership and Satisfaction in Change Commitment
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Effective communication during organizational change
Too Old for Agility? Employee Age and Readiness for Change Toward Scrum—The Moderating Roles of Age Climate and Subjective Age
Schools’ readiness and capacity to improve matter
Full Issue
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Exploring Dispositional Resistance to Change
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Stressor factors, internal communication and commitment to change among administrative staff in Malaysian public higher-education institutions
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Performance, conformance and change
Theories of mass communication.
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Theory of collective behavior.
Resolving social conflicts and field theory in social science
Self-efficacy
Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 7
The Coch and French Study
Guidelines for Overcoming Empirically Identified Evaluation Problems of Organizational Development Change Agents
Overcoming Resistance to Change
Workers' Participation
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Theories of Mass Communication
| Unique citing works | 161 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,19 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 159 |