the role of teachers' self-efficacy and work engagement to predict resistance to change

The purpose of this study is to the role of teachers' self-efficacy and work engagement to predict resistance to change. The method of this study is correlational. it was applied and in of method is descriptive and correlation. Statistical population of this study comprised of all elementary school teachers in Salas Babajani city (240) in 2015-2016 academic year. From among this population, according to the Morgan table and using stratified random sampling 130 sample were selected. For data collection Salanova and Schanfeli work engagement questionnaire, schannen-Moran and Woolfolk teachers self-efficacy questionnaire and taghvaei resistance to change questionnaire was used. Descriptive statistics (frequency, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation and multiple regression) were used to analyze the data. The findings proved that there is a negative significant correlation between teachers' self-efficacy and work engagement with resistance to changeand. to change. The results of regression analysis showed that work engagement and its component are 54% and teaching self-efficacy and its component predict 21% of changes in teacher's resistance to change.