THE EMPLOYEES’ REACTION TO CHANGE – KEY FACTOR IN IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE

Abstract

The employees’ reactions to change and the ability to efficiently manage those reactions represent key aspects when an organisation needs a transformation or when innovation is implemented. This article aims at analysing the way in which the employees react to the changes the company the work in is going through, changes that can have effects at an indiviual level as well - which determines them to support the implementation of the respective change - and what are the causes that lead to their resistance to change. In order to reach the set goals, I have used as a research method the content analysis of different specialised papers and articles of Romanian and foreign authors and of the different patterns of reaction to change. A successful organisational change depends on the atittude of the members of that organisation.

Keywords

• attitude toward change
• resistance to change
• implementing organisational change