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Applying event system theory to organizational change : the importance of everyday positive and negative events
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Kiefer, Tina, Barclay, Laurie and Conway, Neil (2024) Applying event system theory to organizational change : the importance of everyday positive and negative events. Journal of Management . doi:10.1177/01492063241237221 ISSN 0149-2063. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241237221
Abstract
Decades of research have examined how employees experience organizational-level change events (e.g., “the merger”). However, employees can also experience “everyday change events” that occur at the individual-level as the change becomes routinized for their jobs. That is, individuals can react to organizational change events that are occurring at different hierarchical levels. Drawing on event system theory, we argue that employees’ commitment to the organizational-level change event can shape how employees anticipate and experience subsequent everyday change events. These negative and positive everyday change events can impact (a) how employees engage with their work, impacting their performance and (b) whether employees perceive that they are fairly treated, impacting their subsequent evaluations of organizational-level change. Our hypotheses were generally supported in a field sample in which employees were surveyed immediately after a merger was announced, participated in a daily diary study as the merger was implemented, and completed a second survey 2 weeks after the diary study. By applying event system theory to organizational change, we provide important theoretical and practical insights, including how an organizational-level event can exert top-down direct effects by impacting how employees anticipate and experience change on an everyday basis as well as how everyday negative and positive change events can subsequently impact employees’ commitment to the organizational-level change, creating bottom-up direct effects. We also illuminate the importance of considering the frequency and strength of both negative and positive events to understand what it is about everyday negative and positive events that has implications for employees and organizations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational change , Psychology, Industrial, Organizational behavior, Personnel management | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Management | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0149-2063 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2024 | ||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1177/01492063241237221 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © The Author(s) 2024. | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 April 2024 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 April 2024 | ||||||||
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