Organizational climate and culture are related concepts. Organizational climate refers to the current perceptions and feelings people have about an organization based on its values, norms and behaviors. It can change more easily than culture. Organizational culture is deeper and refers to the enduring traditions, beliefs and values of an organization developed over time. Culture is more difficult to change and influences behaviors through shared symbols, myths and stories within the organization. Both impact employee performance but culture is based more in the history of the organization.

1. CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE
Each organization has its own individuality
It projects the personality of an institution
It is the manifestation of behaviour, values and
attitudes of organizational members towards
the organization itself.
It represents a composite of mediating
variables which intervene between structure of
an organization ad style and other
characteristics of leaders, and teacher
performance and satisfaction.

2. DEFINITION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE
 Organizational climate is the summary perception which
people have about an organization.it is thus, a global
expression of what an organization is—Schneider and
Snyder.
 According to Halpin, Personality is to an individual
what an organizational climate is to an organization.
 Organizational climate is a set of characteristics that
describe an organization and that
 a) distinguish one organization from another,
 b) are relatively enduring over a period of time, and c)
influence the behaviour of people in an organization.

3. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Culture denotes a pattern of beliefs, values , norms ,behaviours
learnt from other members of the society
Culture refers to the totality of man’s learned experiences
which is socially transmitted or more briefly, behaviors acquired
through social learning.
The concept of culture is applicable to organizations and social
systems operating within the larger cultural context.
Besides people working in an organization have their own
beliefs, customs, knowledge, preferences and norms.
When these personal characteristics interact with the
organization as a social system, a unique culture evolves in it
which influences organizational members.
Organizational culture is influenced by the external
environment as well as interaction between an organization and
the external environment.
It is also a function of the nature of work and the mission and
the goals of an organization.

4. DEFINITIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Organizational culture is concerned with how employees
perceive the six characteristics- individual,autonomy,structure,
reward , consideration and conflict.-campbell.
It is a set of symbols, ceremonies and myths that communicate
the underlying values and beliefs of that organization to its
employees.—ouchi
It is a pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has
invented, discovered or developed in learning to cope with its
problems of external adaptation and internal integration.—Schein
Organizational culture is a dominant and coherent set of shared
values conveyed by such symbolic means as stories,myths,
legends, slogan etc.

5. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL
CLIMATE AND CULTURE
 does not deal with values and
norms .
 It usually refers to current
situations in an organization
and the linkages among work
groups, employees and work
performance.
 It is usually easily manipulated
by management to directly
influence teacher behaviours.
 It is based on the history and
traditions of an organization
and focusses on values and
norms.
 It usually refers to the
historical context within which
a situation occurs and the
impact of this context on
employee behaviours.
 It is generally considered much
more difficult to change in
short run situations since it has
been defined over a period of
years of tradition and history.
Organizational climate Organizational culture