The moderating effects of Internal and External Processes on the relation between Financial Cuts, Impact of Change and Openness to Change

Abstract

Due to the Financial crisis organizational change is important subject at the moment. A sector which has to do with a lot of changing is the cultural sector. Therefore this research studies employees of cultural organizations. The main question of this research is what is the relation between the independent variables Impact of Organizational Changes and Financial Cuts and the dependant variable Openness to Change? Furthermore, which effect do Leader-Member Exchange, Communication Satisfaction, Regulatory Focus and Locus of Control have on this relation? The study was conducted with 95 people working at different levels of a cultural organization. In contrast to what expected there was not found a significant effect of Financial Cuts and Impact of Change on the Openness to Change. Leader-Member Exchange, Communication Satisfaction, Regulatory Focus and Locus of Control did have a significant effects on this relation.