Maintaining Employees' Commitment to Organizational Change: The Role of Leaders' Informational Justice and Transformational Leadership. (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shin, Jiseon; Seo, Myeong-Gu; Shapiro, Debra L.; Taylor, M. Susan
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied behavioral science. Volume 51:Number 4(2015:Dec.)
• Page Start: 501
• Page End: 528
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: commitment to change -- transformational leader behavior -- informational justice climate; Social sciences -- Periodicals; 300.5
• DOI: 10.1177/0021886315603123
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0021-8863

Abstract

Via a longitudinal study of organizational change, we found that employees' later commitment to change, in both affective and normative forms, was generally greater when they initially felt more rather than less commitment to change and that more commitment to change was sustained over time when employees perceived their leaders to have provided more transformational and informational justice behaviors within their work units. We also found that employees' later commitment to change was a strong predictor of employees' later behavioral support for change and turnover intention. The implications of our findings for how to maintain employee commitment to organizational change will be discussed.