Abstract:

The attitude of employees towards organizational change is very important in terms of the successful implementation of the institutions’ change programmes. Therefore, it would be useful for managers to be aware of the employees’ tendencies to change and to take measures to increase this trend. One of the important variables that individuals are believed to increase their tendency to change is psychological strengthening. This study, aimed at testing the effects of employees’ perceptions of psychological strengthening on their tendencies to change, was carried out by collecting data from 256 people working in different sectors in Istanbul. The results of the analysis have found that as supposedly, the level of "sensitivity" that participants feel while doing their work increases, the levels of "supporting change" and "contributing to change" increases. In addition, when participants realize that they have an impact on their work results, their participation in the changes in their organizations also increases. The study also found that the levels of "sensitivity and impact" in senior managers and working time between 10-15 years were higher than in other groups, while in participants with a working time between 6-10 years the levels of "autonomy" were higher than in other groups. On the contrary, the “sensitivity and competence” in the underlying managers, and in the non-managing staff, the dimensions of “changing participation” have been found to be significantly low compared to other groups.