Employee Readiness for Organizational Change in the SME Internalization Process: The Case of a Medium-Sized Construction Company

Moric Milovanovic, Bojan; Bubas, Zoran; Cvjetkovic, Matea

doi:10.3390/socsci11030131

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Employee Readiness for Organizational Change in the SME Internalization Process: The Case of a Medium-Sized Construction Company

by

Bojan Moric Milovanovic

^1,*

,

Zoran Bubas

¹

and

Matea Cvjetkovic

²

¹

Institute of Public Finance, Smičiklasova 21, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

²

Department of Media and Communication, University North, Trg dr. Žarka Dolinara 1, 48000 Koprivnica, Croatia

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Soc. Sci. 2022, 11(3), 131; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030131

Submission received: 29 December 2021 / Revised: 3 March 2022 / Accepted: 10 March 2022 / Published: 17 March 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and New Entrepreneurial Models—the Transformative Forces in the Era of Global Changes)

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Abstract

A growing body of research, especially in the domain of psychology and business, is aimed at identifying the link between work-related factors and employee readiness to accept change. Moreover, change management is a topic that rapidly attracts the attention of the academic and business communities as well. Therefore, this study is conducted in order to identify the antecedents of the effective implementation of change(s) within a context of a medium-sized construction company that went through numerous changes during its lifetime. A total of 12 different hypotheses and sub-hypotheses was tested to better understand what factors affect employee readiness for change. A multiple regression analysis was used on a sample of 54 employees indicating that organizational commitment, career commitment, and job satisfaction positively affect employee readiness for organizational change. The research contributes to the fields of human resources, organizational psychology, management of small and medium-sized enterprises, and change management.

Keywords: organizational change; internationalization; SMEs; case study; Croatia

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Moric Milovanovic, B.; Bubas, Z.; Cvjetkovic, M. Employee Readiness for Organizational Change in the SME Internalization Process: The Case of a Medium-Sized Construction Company. Soc. Sci. 2022, 11, 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030131

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Moric Milovanovic B, Bubas Z, Cvjetkovic M. Employee Readiness for Organizational Change in the SME Internalization Process: The Case of a Medium-Sized Construction Company. Social Sciences. 2022; 11(3):131. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030131

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Moric Milovanovic, Bojan, Zoran Bubas, and Matea Cvjetkovic. 2022. "Employee Readiness for Organizational Change in the SME Internalization Process: The Case of a Medium-Sized Construction Company" Social Sciences 11, no. 3: 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030131

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Moric Milovanovic, B., Bubas, Z., & Cvjetkovic, M. (2022). Employee Readiness for Organizational Change in the SME Internalization Process: The Case of a Medium-Sized Construction Company. Social Sciences, 11(3), 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030131

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