Abstract:
This study emphasizes the importance of the human factor in the organizational
change process by identifying employees’ attitudes towards organizational change in
NGO sector and the factors affecting those attitudes. The Employee Attitude model
modified by the researcher includes six organizational related factors (receptivity to
change, readiness for change, trust in management, commitment to the organization,
communication of change and training for a change) and three employees related
internal factors (personal beliefs, feeling component, and action component) to explain
the employees' attitudes towards organizational change. An employee attitude survey
was administered among employees of NGOs in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka to test
this model and the results of the gathered data validated this model. The correlation
and regression analysis indicates that there is a strong relationship and significant
influences between employee attitude towards organizational change and
organizational related factors and employee-related internal factors and the research
the model can be considered fit.
