Abstract
One of the most important factors to understand the causes of work satisfaction or dissatisfaction just after facing an organizational change process is to identify the individual reactions to this change under a continuum approach, which varies from active resistance on one ending to total cooperation on another. Therefore, the objective of this study is to understand the implications of organizational change on the levels of work satisfaction, in the light of the individual reactions to the change. A survey was developed in Minas Gerais state government in 679 public employees to evaluate the impact of the individual performance evaluation program. The data obtained from questionnaires indicates that there is a direct relationship between change and satisfaction in the public sector. Furthermore, the result suggest that the employees who evaluate the changes in a positively way and do not resist to them are more satisfied with their jobs.
Keywords
resistance to change: quality of life; job satisfaction; individual performance evaluation
