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    Longitudinal associations between employees’ beliefs about the quality of the change management process, affective commitment to change and psychological empowerment

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    Morin, A.
    Meyer, John
    Bélanger, É.
    Boudrias, J.
    Gagné, Marylène
    Parker, P.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Morin, A. and Meyer, J. and Bélanger, É. and Boudrias, J. and Gagné, M. and Parker, P. 2016. Longitudinal associations between employees’ beliefs about the quality of the change management process, affective commitment to change and psychological empowerment. Human Relations. 69 (3): pp. 839-867.
    Source Title
    Human Relations.
    DOI
    10.1177/0018726715602046
    ISSN
    0018-7267
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30781
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Organizational changes are costly ventures that too often fail to deliver the expected outcomes. Psychological empowerment and affective commitment to change are proposed as especially important in turbulent contexts characterized by multiple and ongoing changes requiring employees’ continuing contributions. In such a context, employees’ beliefs that the changes are necessary, legitimate and will be supported, are presumed to increase psychological empowerment and affective commitment to change. In a three-wave longitudinal panel study of 819 employees, we examined autoregressive and cross-lagged relations among latent constructs reflecting change-related beliefs (necessity, legitimacy, support) and psychological reactions (psychological empowerment, affective commitment to change). Our findings suggest that psychological empowerment and affective commitment to change represent largely orthogonal reactions, that psychological empowerment is influenced more by beliefs regarding support, whereas affective commitment to change is shaped more by beliefs concerning necessity and legitimacy.

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