Organizational climate LO18519

PRESSD@mail.state.wi.us
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:15:16 -0500

Replying to LO18370 --

>I'm interested in investigating the organizational climate at my
>organization, but the literature about this theme is controversial. It's
>difficult to define what is organizational climate and what are its
>dimensions. It seems to me that organizational climate is a construct
>that join many organizational behaviors that we already study with other
>names. What do you know about this?
>
>Juliana Porto
>juporto@linkexpress.com.br

Organizational climate and organizational culture are two different
topics, but you might want to check out the literature and decide for
yourself whether you are investigating the organizational climate
(organizational personality, hopes, attitudes, biases, feeling tones, or
organizational mood) or the organizational culture (shared values,
beliefs, assumptions, norms, artifacts and patterns of behavior) of your
organization.

I would be interested in learning what you find out.

Dennis Presser

Dennis Presser pressd@mail.state.wi.us
Executive Policy and Budget Analyst Phone: (608)266-8777
State Budget Office Fax: (608)267-0372
101 E. Wilson, 10th Floor

Leadership is the ability of humans to relate deeply to each other in the
search for a more perfect union. Leadership is a consensual task, a
sharing of ideas and a sharing of responsibilities, where "leader" is a
leader for the moment only, where the leadership exerted must be validated
by the consent of followers, and where leadership lies in the struggles of
a community to find meaning for itself.
William F. Foster

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