The Relationships between Organisational Culture, Job Satisfaction and Readiness for Change

Nowadays organisations constantly have to undergo changes. Thereby they are highly dependent on their employees in order to accomplish the organisational change. In this study the effects of organisational culture and the job satisfaction of an employee, and the effects of job satisfaction of an employee on readiness for change are investigated. Four different organisational cultures have been tested on both intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. Subsequently both intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction has been tested on the three components of readiness for change namely; the will, the norm and the ability to change. Based on data collected in 2015 (with 291 respondents) the results show that there is not an unequivocal effect between the investigated variables; two organisational cultures do seem to have a positive effect on job satisfactions, whereas others have either no effect or a negative effect. Also, both intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction are variably influential on the will, norm and ability to change.