Readiness for organizational change: The systematic development of a scale

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 232-255

  Holt, Daniel T ^a   Armenakis, Achilles A ^b   Feild, Hubert S ^b   Harris, Stanley G ^b  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward change; Readiness for change; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249733071     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886306295295     Document Type: Article

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