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3. What is Organizational
Climate?
It’s defined as the recurring patterns of
behavior, attitudes and feelings that
characterize life in the organization.
4. In Simple Words
Organizations are like villages; villages
that have become cross cultural; village
that have richer and poorer parts of town.
They have a certain pace and style of
working and unspoken taboos.
Organizations have social structures.
An important element in the life of the
organizational village is it psychological
climate.
5. Organization Climate Dimensions
Even if an organization has a vision that is
leader-initiated, member supported,
comprehensive and detailed, and worth doing, it
must be sustained by a supportive organizational
climate.
6. Important dimensions include
❖ The reward system
❖ Organizational clarity
❖ Standards of performance
❖ Warmth and support
❖ Leadership practices
An evaluation of these and other dimensions can be used to determine whether
that organization is exploitive, impoverished, Supportive or Enlightened.
7. Is Organization climate important?
❖ Just as a sick societies can make
people sick, so can unhealthy work
climate make employees sick.
❖ An organization is only as strong as
its weakest link. An organization
may be strong in performance ,
clarity, and support but if the reward
system is poor, the entire
organization will ultimately suffer.
❖ It influences both the quality of work
and the quality work life of
members.
8. Example
Consider an exploitive hospital; People who can
find employment elsewhere will probably leave .
People who remain may spend more time
complaining about working conditions and
management practices than actually doing their
work.
Exploitive hospitals will have unattended
patients, poor housekeeping and medical
and clerical error.
They experience unnecessary mistakes
due to human factors.
9. Now consider an enlightened hospital, where
standards of performance are high, leadership is
effective, goals and responsibilities are clear.
Warmth and support prevail, and the reward
system reinforces good work.
Enlightened or supportive organizations represent good investments because
they attract excellent personnel, who usually outperform their demoralized
counterparts in exploitive organizations.