A study on employees resistance to change in managing organization: a case study of public and private sector in Perlis

This research study is implemented to identify the problems faced by employees that bring of resistance to change in private and public organizations. The objection made by employees is the main obstacles for organization to improve their performance and achieve the goals of company. This study involves number of factors that have been chosen from the previous studies as the components of resistance to change among employees. This study will touch on some factors that contributing to this problem such as employee behaviour, organization culture and employee perception. The research method used in this study is the quantitative research design by using questionnaire that will be distributed to 100 of respondent from the public and private sector in the state of Perlis. The analysis that conducted in this study includes correlation analysis, regression analysis and cross tabulation analysis to investigate the relationship between the selected variables to achieve the research objectives. From the study, the result showed the variables involved such as employees behaviour and organization culture are not having a strong influence to the causes of resistance to change but the employees perception has a strong influence to the causes of employee's resistance to change that would be run by the organization. This study is important and helpful to provide a guideline for the local organization to plan the change management in nowadays and for the future organization.