The change is unavoidable in the life of an individual or organization. In today’s business world, most of the organizations are facing a vibrant and changing business environment. Studies have revealed that a successful organizational change depends on well-motivated, inspired, and committed workforce. Consequently, this study focuses on the determinants of employee readiness for organizational change: the case of Abay bank share company Bahir Dar city branches. In this study, among 205 workers from 17 branches of Abay Bank in Bahir Dar City Branches, the study took 118 respondents based on a simple random sampling technique. The investigation was done taking five independent variables and one dependent variable. The essential hypothesis was developed to test the variables and SPSS were used for data analysis. Person correlation result showed that each variable, quality of communication (r =.627, p = .000), individual intelligence (r =.566, p = .000), trust in top management (r =.668, p = .000), participation in decision (r =.359, p =.000) and pay/wages/rewards (r =. 414, p = .001) has a positive relationship with employee readiness to change. Multiple regression analysis results revealed that among the five tested hypothesis quality of communication (ß=0.232, P<0.05), individual intelligence (ß =0.220, P<0.05), trust in top management (ß =0.251, P<0.05) and pay/wages/rewards (ß =.122, P<0.05) showed a positive significant effect on employee readiness, whereas participation in decision making (ß =-0.073, P=0.257) was found to be insignificant to predict the employee readiness of Abay Bank SC Bahir Dar city branches. Even though, participation in decision making is insignificant according to the result, the management body of Abay Bank shouldn’t totally ignore this variable since it has significant effect in the previous research results.