Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Shaul Oreg, Rune Todnem By and Alexandra Michel; 2. Capturing the positive experience of change: antecedents, processes, and consequences Mel Fugate; Part II. The Nature of Employees' Reactions to Change: 3. Commitment to organizational change: theory, research, principles, and practice John P. Meyer and Leah K. Hamilton; 4. Reactions to organizational change: an integrated model of health predictors, intervening variables, and outcomes Alexandra Michel and M. Gloria Gonzalez-Morales; Part III. Predicting Employees' Reactions to Change: Individual Factors: 5. Reactions to organizational change from an individual differences perspective: a review of empirical research Maria Vakola, Achilles Armenakis and Shaul Oreg; 6. Employee adaptability to change at work: a multidimensional, resource-based framework Karen van Dam; Part IV. Predicting Employees' Reactions to Change: Organizational Factors: 7. When leadership meets organizational change: the influence of the top management team and supervisory leaders on change appraisals, change attitudes, and adjustment to change Alannah E. Rafferty, Nerina L. Jimmieson and Simon Lloyd D. Restubog; 8. Anticipatory (in)justice and organizational change: understanding employee reactions to change Rashpal K. Dhensa-Kahlon and Jacqueline A. M. Coyle-Shapiro; Part V. The Role of Communication within the Process of Change: 9. Quality change communication and employee responses to change: an investigation of the moderating effects of individual differences in an experimental setting Nerina L. Jimmieson, Alannah E. Rafferty and James E. Allen; 10. Rumors during organizational change: a motivational analysis Prashant Bordia and Nicholas DiFonzo; Part VI. The Interplay between Change and the Organization: 11. Change and fit, fit and change Steven Caldwell; 12. Organizational identification and organizational change Frank Drzensky and Rolf van Dick; Part VII. Conclusion and Commentary: 13. Commentary: change processes and action implications Richard W. Woodman and Jean M. Bartunek.