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Dirk De Clercq1, Dave Bouckenooghe1
1a Brock University.
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This study considers how employees' POC-defined as their beliefs that the organizational climate stifles change and values compliance with the status quo-reduce their trust in top management, as well as how this negative relationship might be buffered by access to two personal resources that support organizational change: openness to experience and affective commitment to change. Data from a sample of Pakistan-based organizations reveal that POC reduce trust in top management, but this effect is weaker at higher levels of openness to experience and affective commitment to change. These findings are significant in that they indicate that employees who operate in organizational climates marked by "yea-saying" can counter the difficulty of improving their job situation by drawing from adequate personal resources.
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