GENERATIONAL CHANGE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE OF A GROUP OF FAMILY BUSINESSES IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF COAHUILA, MEXICO

The succession process in family businesses is one of the most difficult tests faced by this type of organization, so it must be carried out while the founder is still active, since a change of command can affect the organizational climate and consequently the continuity of the family business.The objective of this research is to examine if generational change negatively impacted the organizational climate in a group of family businesses in the central region of Coahuila, Mexico considering the following factors: motivation, communication, leadership, and innovation and change.A quantitative, non-experimental cross-sectional research was carried out, in which an instrument was used with 73 items applied to all employees belonging to the group of companies under study that recently had a succession process.The result generated is that there was no negative impact on the organizational climate in the variables of motivation, communication, and leadership, while in the variable of innovation and change, the result was not negative by a very small margin.Based on the results obtained, it can be said that there was no negative impact on the organizational climate due to the succession process.