Organizational Climate as a Predictor of Organizational Practices
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 40 (3_suppl) , 1191-1199
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1977.40.3c.1191
Abstract
The present study investigated the relationship between organizational climate and certain organizational practices. Organizational climate and organizational practices were measured using a perceptual measurement-organizational attribute approach. The Litwin and Stringer Improved Climate Questionnaire was used to measure perceptions of organizational climate dimensions and scales from House and Rizzo's Organizational Practices Questionnaire were used to measure perceptions of certain organizational practices of 84 salaried employees in a large industrial organization. The results showed dimensions of organizational climate to be predictive of the six organizational practices studied, adaptability, planning adequacy, work-flow coordination, conflict and inconsistency, decision delay, and information distortion and suppression. The results showed certain climate dimensions to be predictive of each of the organizational practices studied. The dimension of reward was an important predictor in each of the regression models and, therefore, may be the most important climate dimension for the six organizational practices.Keywords
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