Abstract:
The general purpuse of this study was to look into teachers’ readiness for implementing
change and assess contributing factors in General Secondary and Preparatory Schools of
West Gojam Zone.To achieve the above objective, questions relating with teachers extent of
readiness for implementing change, the practice of process, context, and individual factors,
the relatedness and or difference of teachers’ readiness for implementing change with
individual characteristics, correlation between teachers’ readiness for implementing change
and factors of readiness for change, and contribution of factors to teachers readiness to
implement change were raised. This study used correlation research design and conducted
using quantitative approach. Data was collected from 466 randomly selected teachers using
Questionnaire to obtain sufficient and reliable primary data. The collected data was analyzed
using descriptive Statistics such as (Mean, frequency, and Percentiles) and inferential
statistics such as (One-Sample t-test, Independent sample t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson’s
correlation coefficient, and stepwise Multiple regressions).The questionnaires were
distributed to 487 teachers, but 14 questionnaires were not returned and 7 questionnaires
were discarded because of incompletely filled and this made the return rate to be 95.68 %.
Regarding to the findings of the study, teachers were ready to implement planned educational
changes cognitively, emotionally and intentionally. The change implementation process was
conducted with strong staff cohesion, less politicking, high organizational commitment and
good history of change. Sex, teaching experience, administrative experience ,educational
level, and teachers’ area of qualification had no statically significant correlation with
teachers’ readiness for implementing change, but age had statically significance correlation
with teachers’ readiness for change at p<.05. All of the process and context factors had
statically significant correlations with overall readiness for teachers to implement change at
p<.05, but organizational politicking had negative correlation with overall readiness for
change at p<.05. The four context factors (organizational politicking, history of change, staff
cohesion and organizational commitment) and a process factor (communication of change)
contribute to 31.3% of teachers’ readiness for the implementation of changes.Therefore, from
the findings of the study, it was concluded that teachers were ready to implement changes in
the study area .Finally, it was recommended that communication of planned educational
changes should be provided to teachers’. Lastly, the study identified the areas for future
research and it is clearly stated.