Organizational climate
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The concept of organizational climate has been assessed by various authors, of which many of them published their own definition of organizational climate. Organizational climate, however, proves to be hard to define. There are two especially intractable and related difficulties: how to define climate and how to measure it effectively on different levels of analysis.
Furthermore there are several approaches to the concept of climate, of which two in particular have received substantial patronage: the cognitive schema approach and the shared perception approach. The first approach regards the concept of climate as an individual perception and cognitive representation of the work environment. From this perspective climate assessments should be conducted at an individual level. The second approach emphasizes the importance of shared perceptions as underpinning the notion of climate (Anderson, & West, 1998; Mathisen & Einarsen 2004). Reichers and Schneider (1990) define organizational climate as the shared perception of the way things are around here (p.22). It is important to realize that from these two approaches, there is no “best” approach and they actually have a great deal of overlap. For further information about the concept of organizational climate I want to refer to the work of Anderson, & West (1998).
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- Anderson, N.R., & West, M.A. (1996). The team climate inventory: Development of the TCI and its applications in teambuilding for innovativeness.
