Employees' Perceptions on the Relationship Between Employee Job Satisfaction and Organizational Change: Empirical Study at Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kurdistan Region (original) (raw)

This research is carried out to investigate employees' perceptions of the relationship between employee job satisfaction and organizational change. A survey instrument comprised five constructs, such as employee job satisfaction: management and leadership style, incentive system, internal work environment, job's nature, and content, and organizational change was designed and administered to employees in departments of the ministry of higher education and scientific research. The empirical data was collected from 400 respondents and analyzed using (SPSS/ Amos v24). The results showed the components of employee job satisfaction, namely management and leadership style, incentive system, internal work environment, job's nature, and content, were positively and significantly correlated to effective organizational change. The results also demonstrated that the job's nature and content, incentive system, and internal work environment were the significant factors that improve employee job satisfaction influence on organizational change. The research concludes that organizational change should be carried out in an atmosphere of collective trust. This research contributes to the literature by representing that the nature of the job and its content, incentive system, and internal work environment significantly affects organizational change.