Organizational climate refers to the environment of a workplace that influences employee behavior and performance. It was introduced in the 1940s to describe patterns affecting human behavior. An organization's climate is influenced by factors like its context, structure, leadership, physical environment, and values. It mechanisms include operating as a constraint through rewards/punishments, facilitating self- and other- evaluation, acting as a stimulus, and helping employees develop perceptions. A sound organizational climate is created through effective communication, participative decision-making, responsiveness to change, concern for people, and technological modernization.

1. ORGANIZATIONAL
CLIMATE
By: Prof Sathish Rajamani
HOD – Department of Psychiatric Nursing
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2. INTRODUCTION
 Organization climate is defined as the element of a
professional environment that has a strong influence
on the action and performance of the employees
working in that workplace.
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3. MEANING
 Organizational climate is a concept that was
introduced in the year 1940s.
 It has been able to describe the patterns that have an
impact on human behaviour as well as workplace
behaviour.
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4. FACTORS
INFLUENCING
ORGANIZATIONAL
CLIMATE
1. Organizational context
2. Organizational structure
3. Leadership process
4. Physical environment
5. Organizational values and norms
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5. FACTORS
INFLUENCING
ORGANIZATIONAL
CLIMATE
1. Organizational context – mission, goals, objectives and
functions.
2. Organizational structure – size, degree of centralization
and operating procedure.
3. Leadership process – leadership styles, communication,
decision making related processes
4. Physical environment – employee safety, environmental
stresses and physical space.
5. Organizational values and norms – conformity, loyality,
impersonality and reciprocity.
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6. FACTORS
INFLUENCING
ORGANIZATIONAL
CLIMATE
1. Overt factors: Hierarchy, financial resources, goals
of an organization, skills and abilities of the
personnel, technological state, performance
standards, efficiency measurement.
2. Covert factors: Attitudes, feelings, values, norms,
interactions, supportiveness and satisfaction.
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7. MECHANISM OF
ORGANIZATIONAL
CLIMATE
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8. 4 TYPES
OF
MECHANISMS
1. Constraint System
2. Self Evaluation and Others Evaluation
3. By Acting as a stimuli
4. By helping the individual to form a perception
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9. 4 TYPES
OF
MECHANISMS
1. Constraint System – It can operate as a constraint
system which can done by explaining the
employees about what kind of behavior will be
rewarded, punished by explaining the employees
about what kind of behavior will be rewarded,
punished or ignored.
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10. 4 TYPES
OF
MECHANISMS
2. Self – Evaluation and Other’s Evaluation: Evaluation
affects human behavior as many organizational
variables may affect the human behavior and through
evaluation which include both the physiological and
psychological variables the behavior is affected.
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11. 4 TYPES
OF
MECHANISMS
3. By Acting as a stimuli: Organizational factors can
influence human behavior by acting as a stimuli. These
factors trigger the motivational variables among the
personnel and affects the level of activation and
eventually influences performances.
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12. 4 TYPES
OF
MECHANISMS
4. By helping the individual to form a perception:
Organizational factors influences human behavior by
helping the individual to form a perception about the
organization. The formed perception then influences
the performance of the personnel.
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13. FACTORS
RESPONSIBLE
FOR
SOUND
ORGANIZATION
CLIMATE
Effective
Communication
System
Participative
Decision
Making
Change in
Policies,
Procedures and
Rules
Technological
changes
Concern for
people
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