Managing Human Resources in a Public Sector Organization Through Organizational Change

Abstract

Change is inevitable. Governmental fiscal policies, introduction of technology, socio-political climate and such other factors often force organizational change. Thus change in employees' behavior is necessary for the survival and growth of the organizations and its environment. Planned change is concerned with changing the behavior of individuals and groups within the organization to improve the ability of the organization and capability of the employees. Heavy Engineering Corporation (REC) Limited, Ranchi, is one of the organizations which experienced Union-Management conflict in 1987 with the result that lockout for 72 days was declared. HEC incurred heavy losses and the management negotiated with the union on the basis of introducing some changes in policies. H EC thus was selected to conduct the present study.610 production line workers of different units viz. Foundry Forge Plant (FFP), Heavy Machine Building Plant (HMBP), and Heavy Machine Tools Plant (HMTP) participated in the present investigation. Organizational Change Scale (OCS), a psychometrically sound measuring device, having split-half reliability coefficient equal to .85 was used to measure the introduced change. Salary and Job-Tenure were independent variables, and Organizational Change was the dependent one. Kruskal-Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance (H) was used for statistical analysis. ft was found that 'Salary' and 'JobTenure' significantly influenced organizational change.