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ANTECEDENTS OF EMPLOYEE RESISTANCE TO CHANGE IN SOFTWARE COMPANIES (Su Paing Soe, 2019) Su Paing Soe The main purpose of this study is to examine the antecedents of employee resistance to change and the relation of resistance to change with turnover intention of software engineers who are working in software companies of IT industry from Yangon. The primary data are gathered from 257 software engineers of 83 software companies with questionnaire which is designed with 5-point Likert. The secondary data was collected from previous papers, text books and website for this study. There are several different reasons that how resistance to change varies based on other organizational variables such as job stress, participation, communication, training, job insecurity and degree of trust in management. This study found that job stress and job insecurity have significantly and positively effect on employee resistance to change. Participation, communication and training are significantly and negatively effect on employee resistance to change. In this study, it is observed that employee resistance to change is directly effect on turnover intention. According to results of this study, software companies should create work environment that can reduce stress and ensure for employees’ job security through good communication, participation, proper training for changes. 2019-11-01 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12678/0000002858 https://meral.edu.mm/records/2858