Managing change effectively is a main challenge in the domain of change management. For organization managers must understand influencing factors which can force employees to motivate for change situation. This research focuses to examine the employees’ attitudes and behaviors by commitment with the organization and career. Before, employees’ commitment with the organization has been examined a...

purpose: the present study aims to investigate the academic librarians’ cognitive, affective, and the behavioral attitudes to the organizational change in the library. methodology: the current research is conducted using survey method. the attitude toward change questionnaire which was developed and validated by dunham and his collaborators was utilized for data gathering. the population of thi...

In two studies, we investigated the roles of explicit memory and attentional resources in the process of behavior-induced attitude change. Although most theories of attitude change (cognitive dissonance and self-perception theories) assume an important role for both mechanisms, we propose that behavior-induced attitude change can be a relatively automatic process that does not require explicit ...

This study examines how different types of information processing routes influence a user’s attitude toward an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model. We tested the main effects of content quality (central route) and system credibility (peripheral route) on attitude change and the moderating effects of motivation and IT ability. Using student survey ...

Witnessing an ingroup member acting against his or her belief can lead individuals who identify with that group to change their own attitude in the direction of that counterattitudinal behavior. Two studies demonstrate this vicarious dissonance effect among high ingroup identifiers and show that this attitude change is not attributable to conformity to a perceived change in speaker attitude. St...

This article explores the relation of age to manifestations and antecedents of attitude strength. Three studies demonstrate that susceptibility to attitude change is greater during early and late adulthood than during middle adulthood. Three additional studies demonstrate that attitude importance, certainty, and perceived quantity of attitude-relevant knowledge are greater in middle adulthood t...