International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

The study focused on organizational change and employees’ commitment. The population of study was 1,400 and the sample size was 311. Taro Yamane formula tool was used to draw the sample size. A skilfully structured questionnaire was used to draw responses from the respondents and only 300 out of the number retrieved were finally found worthy for analysis, Spearman rank Correlation Coefficient tool and regression analysis along with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) statistics tools were used to analyse the data to derive solution to the research work. The findings revealed a significant positive relationship between change readiness and employees’ commitment, a significant positive relationship between employees’ commitment and personal valence, a significant positive relationship between perception of change communication and employees’ commitment. It was recommended, among others, that managers should accommodate valence in organizational behaviour, manufacturing industries should accommodate workplace valence to gain employees’ commitment and embrace the importance of change communication in an organization. The study concluded that companies should endeavour to provide career planning for their young employees as a means of creating change readiness for them to achieve a goal and retain them for very long time, this in turn will enhance employees’ commitment to organizational goals.