The Organizational Internal Environment as an Effective Factor for

The internal environment of any organization is an effective factor on change management. There are many effective factors which should be determined and utilized for change management in any organization including nursing and midwifery schools. So, this study aimed to explore organizational internal environment of nursing and midwifery schools and it''s effect on change management. This study was the qualitative part of a mixed exploratory study. The participants were recruited by purposeful sampling method from the managers of Tehran schools of nursing and midwifery. Data were gathered by semi-structured interviews and conventional content analysis was used for data analysis. Totally, 171 conceptual codes were extracted which were categorized in 3 themes including changing process, internal organizational environment and external organizational environment. Internal organizational environment had 10 subcategories in 3 main categories including managerial-, organizational- and individual-factors The concept of change management is a complicate procedure which is influenced by managerial-, organizational- and individual-factors. Faculty members, manager''s duties, education, attitude and other factors should be considered for change management in schools of nursing and midwifery.