Organizational Readiness for Change to Lean Initiatives Amongst Nigerian Manufacturing SMEs: Literature Review and Questionnaire Pre-test

Abstract

This study pre-tested measurements of organizational readiness for change from the
dimensions of change efficacy and change commitment to measure manufacturing SMEs'
confidence and willingness to change to lean. Expert opinion and respondents focus groups are
used to examine the content of the items in the questionnaire, followed by pilot study of
manufacturing SMEs, The result of the pilot study reveals the two dimensions of organizational
readiness for change to Lean initiative; thus, change efficacy and change commitment have
shown acceptable reliability. Change efficacy has a Cronbach Alpha of 0.911, while change
commitment has 0.845 as Cronbach Alpha. The study concludes that the two dimensions of
organizational readiness for change are reliable for conducting studies with large sample size