Institute of Transportation, MOTC

       Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) was restructured into state-owned Taiwan Railway Corporation, Ltd. (TRC) on January 1, 2024. This significant organizational change has caused concerns and anxiety among TRA employees regarding changes in internal organizational structure, operational policies, and employee compensation and benefits. Moreover, TRA employees have various perceptions regarding the urgency of the corporatization, the future benefits, and the communication process during the reform. This study explores the relationship among TRA employees’ cognition of organizational change, job insecurity, job involvement, organizational commitment, and intention to stay.
It aims to measure the levels of these dimensions and examine the causal relationships among them.
        The empirical data are collected from TRA employees and a total of 632 valid questionnaires are collected. The data collected are analyzed by descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. The results of the structural equation modeling reveal that (1) organizational commitment significantly positively impacts intention to stay; (2) job involvement significantly positively impacts intention to stay; (3) job involvement significantly positively impacts organizational commitment; (4) job insecurity significantly negatively impacts organizational commitment; (5) cognition of organizational change significantly positively impacts organizational commitment; (6) cognition of organizational change significantly positively impacts job involvement; (7) cognition of organizational change significantly negatively impacts job insecurity; but (8) job insecurity dosen’t significantly negatively impacts job involvement.