Leaders' characteristics and behaviors and employees' resistance to organizational change

Shaul Oreg; Yair Berson

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2009.44259813

Leaders' characteristics and behaviors and employees' resistance to organizational change

Shaul Oreg^*, Yair Berson

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Abstract

We examined the role of leaders' characteristics and transformational leadership behaviors in explaining employees' resistance to a large-scale organizational reform. Through a multi-level analysis of data from 75 school principals and 586 teachers we found that teachers' intentions to resist the organizational reform were negatively related to their principals' openness to change values and positively related to their principals' dispositional resistance to change. Furthermore, principals' transformational leadership behaviors moderated the relationship between teachers' dispositional resistance and intentions to resist the reform.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2009.44259813
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2009 - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: 7 Aug 2009 → 11 Aug 2009

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Conference	69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago, IL
Period	7/08/09 → 11/08/09

Keywords

Individual differences
Leadership
Resistance to change

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