Organizational Psychology

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the psychometric properties of the questionnaire «Readiness for organizational changes» (ROC) by D. Holt. The measure consists of four scales: «Appropriateness of changes», «Management Support», «Change Efficacy», «Personal Valence». Analysis based on a study with 313 respondents from various Russian companies from the commercial and the public sector in the process of organizational change. The factorial structure of the Russian version of the ROC questionnaire were considered, the internal consistency of methodology were analyzed, differences in the level of preparedness in various age and occupational groups were verified. Results. Factor structure of the Russian version of the questionnaire corresponds to the factor structure of the original ROC questionnaire. The study confirmed the internal consistency of questionnaire items and scales the questionnaire as a whole (Cronbach’s alpha = .88). The differences in the levelof psychological readiness for organizational change for groups of different professions (the level of readiness in the subgroup of helping professions experts is higher than in the subgroup consisting of sales professionals), differences by gender (level of readiness of men are generally higher than women) and differences by the level of a position (level of readiness of line managers is higher thanlevel of ordinary workers) were found. The article presents the factors of the Russian version, text ofthe questionnaire, the key to the methodology and interpretation of the scale. The value of the results. The Russian version of the ROC questionnaire was first published in this article. The measure can be recommended for use for the study of psychological readiness for organizational change. Further use of the Russian version of ROC questionnaire can therefore be useful for exploring cross-cultural aspects of psychological readiness for organizational change.