Role of EI and Personality Variables on Attitudes toward OrganiZational Change

Aparna V. 10ab04 Preethi P 10ad22

Introduction
O Focus on individuals emotions and

personality traits during org. change. O Relationship between personality traits and employees attitude towards change. O Contribution of EI to the attitudes to change

Attitudes to Change
O Individuals feelings, thoughts and

predispositions to act towards some aspect of his/her environment O Strong positive attitudes to strong negative attitudes O Emotions and responses to change intensive death and grief O Stages equilibrium, denial, anger, bargaining, chaos, depression, resignation, openness, readiness, and reemergence

O Staff perceptions to organization change

top management commitment, allocation of resources, rewards, training, participation in learning and implementation

Personality in Organizational Settings

O Five Factor Model neuroticism,

extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. O Application and use of FFM in org job performance, job commitment, voluntary turnover, absenteeism etc O attitudes to change depends on individuals change schemata O Schemata significantly dependent on personality traits

O Openness- effective coping and

adjustment O Agreeableness compliant, avoiding tenses and arguments in workplace O Conscientiousness positive attitude towards change O Neuroticism negative attitude to change H1 : Attitude towards org. change will be positively associated to openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and negatively associated with neuroticism

EI in Workplace
O EI ability to monitor ones own and

others emotions to discriminate among them and to use the info. to guide ones thinking and actions. O EI non cognitive intelligence intra-personal skills, inter-personal skills, adaptability, stress management and general mood (optimism, happiness) O people with high levels of EI experience more career success

O Organistional volatility, change and EI

evidence suggests EI can contribute to competitve advantage. O Individual difference construct of EI has the potential to contribute to a better understanding of the affective implications of a change policy. H2: Attitudes toward org. change will demonstrate positive relationship with use of emotions for problem solving, control of emotion as well as with overall EI Score.

Additional variance of attitude

O Different way of looking and working with

manage change. O Focus also on ability of ppl. to manage his or her emotions at work. O Investigation on how various attributes of personality and EI can facilitate organistaional change at an individual level. H3: EI will explain additional variance of attitudes towards change above and beyond the effect of personality.

Personal Variables
O Iverson employee with low tenure and high

education are more positive towards organizational change. O Cordary positive relationship between years in education and acceptance of org. change. O Iverson no relationship between gender and attitudes to change. H4: tenure will be negatively associated with attitudes towards organizational change. H5: Attitude towards org. change will demonstrate significant association between different levels of education. H6: there will be no significant difference between male and female regarding attitude towards org. change

Findings:
O Confirmed relationships among FFM, EI

and attitudes towards org change proving need for an individual level approach to managing change O Positive relationship between individual characteristics and attitudes to change which contribute to success of change.