Study of Organizational Change and Its Impact On Organizational Commitment in Some Selected IT Organizations in Northern India

Abstract

The Information technology (IT) sector in India is currently thriving with new newlineentrants in the private sector. To survive in the competitive era, the organizations have to understand the importance of relevant organizational change and its impact on newlineimportant factors like organization commitment. Organisational change has a deep and long-lasting effect on the employees commitment. As a result, to suggest the newlinemeasures to cope with the change initiatives and to increase the effectiveness of the newlinechange initiatives, the foremost aim is to examine the concept of organizational newlinechange within different change levers, various initiatives taken to manage the change and understand the impact on organizational Commitment. newlineOrganizations today realize that if they have to survive and grow, they have to bring in relevant changes within different change levers like technology, marketing, quality, cost, strategy, structure, managing people and leadership. These changes have to be newlinemanaged effectively. It is seen that when change process is not managed properly newlinepeople resist change and organizations have to pay heavy price. It is important to examine how IT companies are managing change initiatives in all these eight levers. newlineFor managers, the major issue in organizations is to deal with reasons and factors that initiate organizational change, processes characterizing change initiatives and the newlinesteps taken to manage these change initiatives with in every change lever. Sparse literature is available in assessing the outcome of change in IT companies of India, newlineespecially covering change levers. Globalization, deregulation and digitalization have brought many changes. Thus, it is important to cover all these aspects of change and understand how the IT organizations are responding to these changes. newlineThe main objective of the study was to understand the relationship between newlinemanagement of change initiatives taken in various organizational change levers and newlinetheir association with organization commitment.