DETERMINANTS OF EMPOLYEES' PERCEPTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE (A SURVEY OFTHREESELECTED PUBLIC SECTORS ON BALE ZONE)

This study aimed to identify employees’ perception toward organizational change in the three selected Public Sectors in Bale Zone and factors determine these perception. The research model adapted from Chaiporn Vithessonthi (2005) included subsets variables of content, process, context of change, and personality attributes. The independent variables were Factors concerning real and expected consequences of change, Factors concerning change process, and Factors concerning employees’ relationships with the management and colleagues’. The study used quantitative data by using survey method and structured survey questionnaires were distributed to 118 (one hundred eighteen) three selected government offices in Bale Zone, simple random sampling technique used to select the employees as respondent. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the demographic factors of employees’. Beside this SPSS version 20 also to employed to analysis the data. Pearson's correlation was used to show the relationship' between the dependent and the independent variables. The researcher also used multiple regression tools to examine the effects of independent variables on dependent variable. The study reveals that factors concerning actual and expected consequences of change determine the perception of employees’ towards of change. The study also disclosed that Factors concerning change process and Factors concerning employees’ relationships with their management had no relationships with employees’ perception to organizational change. Key words: organizational change, perception, resistance to change, support to change, perception to change, determents of change 2