TY - JOUR
T1 - Leaders' characteristics and behaviors and employees' resistance to organizational change
AU - Oreg, Shaul
AU - Berson, Yair
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Individual differences
KW - Leadership
KW - Resistance to change
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85207461541&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2009.44259813
DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2009.44259813
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AN - SCOPUS:85207461541
SN - 0065-0668
JO - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
T2 - 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2009
Y2 - 7 August 2009 through 11 August 2009
ER -