ASSESSMENT TO THE LEVEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS FOR CHANGE IN PUBLIC DIRECTORATES IN ZAKHO INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION

Abstract He aim of this study was to evaluate the level of readiness for change among directors and head of departments in public directorates that belong to “Zakho Independent Administration”. More specifically, the research focused on assessing selected dimensions of readiness for change, based on the (Holt et al., 2007) model. Namely; appropriateness, management support, self-Efficacy, and personally beneficial. One hundred and nine (109) directors and heads of departments were selected randomly from public directorates in Zakho. The participants were given a pre-structured questionnaire of two parts containing two parts. The first part was related to the demographic and personal characteristics. The second part was about the change readiness questionnaire by (Holt et al., 2007) four dimension model. Descriptive statistics were used to achieve research objectives from SPSS (24.0). The results exposed a moderate level of readiness for change as the mean for the overall change readiness was slightly above the midpoint of Five-point Likert scale (3.5 out of 5). Personally beneficial recorded the highest level among all the four dimensions. Whereas the lowest level was recorded with management support. Finally, the findings also showed that the level of readiness for change does not explain noticeable variance based on personal factors