Positive and negative impact of management
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the effect depends of how management handled the whole change process. There are known models for effective change process which when followed will educate employees on the reason and necessity for change, on how management is concerned about the emotional effects of change on the employee etc. If management properly articulated the change, and the urgency of change and also role modeled and institutionalized the change, the chances are that employees will buy into the change and will be favourably disposed to the organisation. Hence, employee commitment will not be negatively affected. For example if the change process will involve reduction of staff, the emotional connection of employers to the plight of those affected will tell a lot to those that are left and affect their commitment to the organization. If management did not care much about the situation of those affected, the remaining employees will simply extrapolate the management action to determine what would happen to them in future. In this case their commitment will be negatively affected.