Internal change through external actions: the impact of external corporate social responsibility on employee readiness for change

IF 2.7 4区 管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Marlene Reimer, Luca Haensse, Nick Lin-Hi
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Abstract

Purpose

Employee readiness for change is essential for long-term organizational success. However, organizations often struggle to generate employee support for change as they fail to mitigate associated uncertainties. Studies exploring possible antecedents of employee readiness for change primarily focus on internal organizational practices, while external practices have been overlooked in the discussion. Drawing from uncertainty reduction theory, we examine how external organizational practices in terms of external CSR positively affect readiness for change.

Design/methodology/approach

In a survey of 377 employees from 29 German companies, we test the hypothesized chain of effects between external CSR, perceived organizational support, perceived uncertainty, and readiness for change by using structural equation modeling.

Findings

Results from structural equation modeling demonstrate a positive relationship between external CSR and readiness for change, which is sequentially mediated by perceptions of organizational support and uncertainty.

Originality/value

By highlighting the role of external organizational practices in promoting change readiness, the paper offers new insights into the mechanisms of effective change management.

通过外部行动实现内部变革:外部企业社会责任对员工变革意愿的影响
目的员工为变革做好准备对于组织的长期成功至关重要。然而,由于组织未能减少相关的不确定性,因此往往很难获得员工对变革的支持。探讨员工变革准备度的可能前因的研究主要集中在组织内部实践,而外部实践在讨论中被忽视了。设计/方法/途径在对 29 家德国公司的 377 名员工进行的调查中,我们使用结构方程模型检验了外部企业社会责任、感知到的组织支持、感知到的不确定性和变革准备之间的假设效应链。研究结果结构方程模型的结果表明,外部企业社会责任与变革准备度之间存在正相关关系,而变革准备度又受到组织支持感和不确定性的影响。
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CiteScore
5.80
自引率
3.60%
发文量
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期刊介绍: ■Adapting strategic planning to the need for change ■Leadership research ■Responsibility for change implementation and follow-through ■The psychology of change and its effect on the workforce ■TQM - will it work in your organization? Successful organizations respond intelligently to factors which precipitate change. Economic climates, political trends, changes in consumer demands, management policy or structure, employment levels and financial resources - all these elements are constantly at play to ensure that organizations clinging on to static structures will ultimately lose out. But change is a dynamic and alarming thing - this journal addresses how to manage it positively.
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