The relationship between organizational culture and employees' attitude towards organizational change

The rate of organizational change has not slowed in recent years, and may even be increasing. ne rapid and continual innovations in technology are driving changes in organizational systems and processes. It is obvious that in some organizations the process of changes is easier than in other organizations. There are several factors influencing this process, mainly attitude of the staff towards changes. One of the factors authors of this paper see organizational culture. Paper consists of three parts. In the firs part of the paper notion of organizational culture is presented. In the second part of the paper attitude towards organizational change analyzed. The third part presents relationship between types of organizational culture and attitudes towards organizational change. Results of this study indicate the influence of organizational culture on attitudes towards organizational change in Malaysia. The results showed that there is an association between organizational culture and the affective, cognitive, and behavioral tendency of attitudes towards organizational change. The findings also showed that different types of organizational culture have different levels of acceptance of attitudes towards organizational change.