ABSTRACT

The rate of competition in the telecommunication industry in Nigeria is moving at a leap frog basis due to changes in technology, product and services, customer taste among others. This has made change management experts to emphasize on the importance of establishing organizations readiness for change and have crafted various strategies for creating it because successful management of change is crucial to any organization to survive in the present highly competitive and continuously evolving business environment. Change management is a planned loom for the transition of individuals, groups and organizations from existing state to a required future state. Thus, managing a change process is as important as change itself. This study therefore examines empirically change management and its effects on organizational performance in Nigerian telecommunication industries. In conducting this study, a total of 210 staffs of MTN were randomly selected from a staff population of 460 in Ilorin. Four hypotheses were advanced to guide the study and data collected for the study were analyzed using regression Analysis and one-sample t-test. The result revealed that changes in technology has a significant effect on performance at 5% level of significant and it follows that there is a significant effect of specific change models/techniques on organizational performance (P-value=0.000