Job Motivation and Self-Confidence for Learning and Development as Predictors of Support for Change

For the most part, studies on change management have attempted to determine the factors that influence employee resistance to change. The focus of the present study is to test whether job motivation and self-confidence for learning and development influence employee support for downsizing. Data were gathered from a sample of 86 teachers at one private school in Bangkok, Thailand. The analysis was carried out using multinomial ordered probit regression. The results suggest that the level of job motivation is negatively associated with the level of support for change, and that the level of self-confidence for learning and development is not associated with the level of support for change. These results are counterintuitive, and they refute our initial hypotheses.