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2 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/techssj2 and id is 1 raw text is: Technium Social Sciences Journal jISSN: 2668-7798 SOCIAL SCIENCES JOURNAL www.techniumscience.com Employee Commitment to Organizational Change with the Role of Job Satisfaction and Transformational Leadership Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy Lac Hong University (Faculty of Administration-International Economics), Vietnam thuyntbklhu.edu.vn Phan Dang Ngoc Yen Van Lac Hong University (Faculty of Administration-International Economics), Vietnam vanpdny lhu.edu.vn Abstract. This study aimed to analyze the role of job satisfaction and transformation leadership for employees' commitment to organizational change. Based on a survey sample of 381 employees in post-merger enterprises in retail and pharmaceutical sector and a linear regression model. The results revealed that Transformational leadership was associated positively and significantly with Affective Commitment (P = .42, p < .000), Nomative Commitment (P = .32, p < .000), and Continuance Commitment (P = .27, p < .000); Job satisfaction was associated positively and significantly with Affective Commitment (P = .24, p < .000) and Nomative Commitment (P = .30, p <.000) among employees' to organizational change. The results of this study provide a foundation of theory and practice for organizational changes that can efficiently exploit the human resource for the development in the next period. Keywords. job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational change, transformational leadership, Vietnam Introduction Commitment is arguably one of the most critical factors involved in employees' support for change initiatives (Herscovitch & Meyer, 2002). In the context of vibrant economic development in Vietnam, where competition is taking place so fiercely that the result may be the acquisition of large businesses for smaller businesses that often take place (Hosseini, Thu, & Trang, 2017; Vuong, Napier,