Impact Of Hr Practices Transition Of Change And Attitude On Employee Commitment

Abstract

Globalization, technological innovation, information explosion and competitive business environment force organizations to introduce change management. Several studies have pointed that majority of the change projects have not been successfully implemented. Thus there has been a growing interest among researchers in identifying the problems associated with the change process like resistance to change, attitude towards change management, employee reactions in the transition of change, etc. Reported studies on change management in hotel industry have been vastly unexplored. This paper address the gap in literature by focusing on the two important factors in change management literature namely attitude towards change and transition of change. The objective of this paper is analyzing the mediating effects of attitude towards change and transition of change on the relationship between human resource (HR) practices and Commitment towards Organization and Job in hotel Industry. A randomly selected sample of 535 employees working in different Five, Four and Three star hotels in the Chennai Region participated in this study. A questionnaire was developed to measure the variables like Transition of Change in the Hotel Industry, Employee Attitude towards Change, HR Practices in the Hotel Industry and Employee Commitment towards Organization and Job. Results indicated that the mediating variables namely attitude towards change and transition of change have significant positive impact on the employee Commitment towards Organization and Job. In addition, HR practices also have significantly positive impact on the employee Commitment towards Organization and Job in hospitality industry. This work analysed and tested significance in the differences among the newline newline newline newlinecategories of various demographic factors like Gender, Age and Experience on the variables like Transition of Change , Attitude towards Change , HR Practices and Commitment towards Organization and Job . SPSS 25.0 was used for a