How does regulatory focus affect uncertainty towards organizational change?

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a research model on Taiwan's National Police Administration setting, extending the theory of planned behavior, reasoned action, and expectancy-valence, and developing the more neglected aspects of the goal-setting theory.Design methodol...

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Published in:Leadership & organization development journal 2008-10, Vol.29 (8), p.713-731
Main Authors: Tseng, Hsing-Chau, Kang, Long-Min
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Emotions
Employees
Goal setting
Job satisfaction
Motivation
Organizational change
Pain
Prevention
Regulation
Role conflict
Structural equation modeling
Studies
Taiwan
Theory of planned behavior
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Summary:Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a research model on Taiwan's National Police Administration setting, extending the theory of planned behavior, reasoned action, and expectancy-valence, and developing the more neglected aspects of the goal-setting theory.Design methodology approach - Participants were Taiwan's National Police Administration employing 500 full-time employees. Structural Equation Modeling was used to explore the relationship among regulatory focus, uncertainty towards organizational change, and organizational commitment.Findings - The results were that promotion focus or prevention focus had a significantly positive influence on uncertainty towards organizational change, and only promotion focus had a significantly positive influence on organizational commitment. In addition, uncertainty towards organizational change had a significantly negative influence on organizational commitment. The results supported the significant role of uncertainty towards organizational change as a mediator in the relationship between promotion focus (or prevention focus) and organizational commitment.Originality value - The results of the research help fill important research gaps (lack of empirical research and generalization) in the regulatory focus theory literature, clarifying the special role of regulatory focus in a traditional police organization's change processing, and its implications for police officers utilizing a non-US setting to allow a cross-cultural examination of regulatory focus theory.
ISSN:0143-7739
1472-5347
DOI:10.1108/01437730810916659