Organizational change questionnaire-climate of change, processes, and readiness: Development of a new instrument

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 559-599

  Bouckenooghe, Dave ^a   Devos, Geert ^b   Van Den Broeck, Herman ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assessment of climate of change and change process; Readiness for change; Scale development

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70350754412     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980903218216     Document Type: Article

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