The Investigation of Relationship Between Resistance of Employees to Change and the Dimensions of Organizational Structure in Governmental Organizations

This study aims at investigating the relationship between the amount of employee resistance tochange and organizational structure in governmental agencies in Khorasan Razavi. In order to verifythe validity of the questionnaire kmo tests, Bartlett and factor analysis were used which wasdetermined that kmo values were greater than 7.0 (kmo = 762.0), Bartlett s test was at a significancelevel of less than 05.0 (s<05.0) and factor loadings of all the questions were above 3 and thereforeits validity was confirmed. Cronbach alpha value of the questionnaire was greater than 7.0 (756.0 =α); The findings show that there is no significant relationship between the amount of employees resistance to change and the extent of formality of organizational structure (s= 0.143); Also there isno significant relationship between the amount of employees’ resistance to change and the extentof centralization of organizational structure (s= 0.774), but there is a positive relationship betweenthe amount of employee resistance to change and the complexity of organizational structure (s=0.000 and p= 0.182).

Keywords:

Organizational Structure , Formality , Centralization , Complexity , Organizational Change