Nielsen, K. orcid.org/0000-0001-9685-9570, Dawson, J., Hasson, H. et al. (1 more author) (2021) What about me? The impact of employee change agents’ person-role fit on their job satisfaction during organisational change. Work and Stress, 35 (1). pp. 57-73. ISSN 0267-8373
Abstract
Organisational changes do not always achieve their intended outcomes and have been found to have negative consequences on employee wellbeing. It has been argued that this is because change processes need to support employees adopting the change. In the present study, we study an organisational change aimed to improve employee capacity to provide eHealth services. To support the change, employees were appointed change agents and trained in running seminars to facilitate the change. Using Person-Job fit as our theoretical framework, we proposed that change agents who perceived they possess the necessary competencies to deal with the change agent role (Person-Role fit) would feel more efficacious in this role and be more satisfied with their jobs post-change. We suggested that role-specific self-efficacy mediated the relationship between person-role fit and job satisfaction and that the most dissatisfied pre-change would perceive the greatest improvements in job satisfaction. Using a paired t-test, repeated measures analyses and mixed methods mediation testing, we found that change agents (N = 110) reported increased job satisfaction post-change. Change agents who were dissatisfied with their jobs pre-change, but perceived a good fit to the change agent role, reported the greatest improvements in job satisfaction. No significant results were found for self-efficacy.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Work and Stress. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Organizational change; dialogue seminars; job satisfaction; change agent; person-job fit |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2020 13:16 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2021 15:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02678373.2020.1730481 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156977 |