Resumen de Change Leadership Ability to Improve Employees’ Readiness to Change

Mira Tripuspita, Achmad Sudiro, Sumiati Sumiati, Dodi Wirawan Irawanto

• Purpose: The objective of this theoretical review is to reveal the interaction of constructs that may predict employees’ readiness to change. This aims to examine the change leadership ability in improving the employee readiness to change.

    Design/methodology/approach: This is a theoretical examination to explore the factors that affect employee readiness to change based on phenomena at oil & gas sector in state-own enterprise Indonesia.

    Findings: Change leadership may have significant impact to strengthen employees’ readiness to change with the existence of individual psychological attribute, supported by trust in leaders.

    Research limitations/implications: This research examines theoretically the change leadership ability to affect the employees’ readiness to change. Therefore, researchers should use this research as a basis to make empirical research to prove its truth and obtain other valuable findings.    Practical implications: This research is useful to enhance change readiness concept in its relations to change leadership. The review can be used as basis to make an empirical research.

    Social Implications: The findings shows that change leadership may have significant impact to strengthen employees’ readiness. It will support management as well as the employees to manage change readiness during organization transformation.

    Originality/value: This research explores theoretically antecedent factors that affect employee readiness to change based on phenomena at oil & gas sector in state-own enterprise Indonesia.