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Organizational change is something organizations usually want and strive for. Whether it is replacing old strategies and procedures, creating new teams, or adopting new technology, it is familiar to most of us. Still, the way we feel about such changes can be very different.

Therefore, the persistent questions among practitioners and scholars are:

• Why do some employees support organizational change projects while others resist them?
• Why do some employees react to changes more strongly than others?

It is essential to realize that employees want to understand what is happening and what the change means. How will this change affect my job and my future in this organization? Will this change make my life better or worse?

These questions have received some attention from researchers, and studies have identified organizational communication and support as critical factors that facilitate change. Yet, the role of employees’ values, including moral values, remains uncharted territory. People may support or resist a change project for ethical reasons. Different and even opposing values between the convictions of an employee and the ones reflected in a change project may affect how organizational change plays out.

Surprisingly we know little about why, when, and how this happens. For a better understanding of these questions, we need your help!

Have you experienced/are you experiencing any small to significant change in your organization? We would like to learn from you: What challenges were or are you facing? 

Join our research project and make a difference. Help our research hosted by the University of Amsterdam to learn more about managing organizational changes. 

Please use this link to participate in the survey and/or to distribute the survey: https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3gZHKUshXEiPlFs.

What do we offer?

For individual participants:

• A personal report based on your own responses;
• A chance to win one of two bol.com vouchers;
• The good feeling of having helped to shed light on important issues around change.

For organizations:

• Organization-wide report based on the results from the organization's participants (needs to be arranged with the organization before participating in the study).

If you want to know more about the research, please contact e.e.ceker@uva.nl.