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Organizational Climate

Organizational Climate. January 25, 2002 Burton and Obel, Chap 4. Your Organization. Describe the climate. Elements of Climate. Trust Conflict Morale Rewards Resistance to change Leader credibility Scapegoating. Climate categories. Group: friendly, people share

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Organizational Climate

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  1. Organizational Climate • January 25, 2002 • Burton and Obel, Chap 4

  2. Your Organization Describe the climate

  3. Elements of Climate • Trust • Conflict • Morale • Rewards • Resistance to change • Leader credibility • Scapegoating

  4. Climate categories • Group: friendly, people share • Developmental:dynamic, creative • Rational goal: results oriented, hard driving • Internal process: formalized, running smoothly

  5. Climate Characteristics

  6. Tension and resistance to change • Compare group and development; where are they the same and where different? • Compare rational goal and internal process: where are they the same and where different? • Consider resistance to change and “tension.” • What is tension? Describe. • Group: low tension and high res to change • Development: low tension and low res to change • Rational goal: high tension and low res to change • Internal process: high tension and high res to change

  7. Performance • Where would you prefer to work? • Which one performed best? • Our results: Rational goal: high tension and low resistance to change, why?

  8. Climate and Design • Group climate suggest what kind of structure, ie, configuration, formalization, decentralization, organizational complexity, information systems, incentives, etc ? Check with Figure 4.3. • Developmental? Figure 4.4 • Rational Goal? Figure 4.6 • Internal process? Figure 4.5

  9. Climate and Leadership • What are some misfits with the level of microinvolvement: • Group and high microinvolvement • Developmental and risk averse, high microinvolve • Rational goal and low microinvolvement • Internal process and low microinvolvement • See p. 311 – 312 for review. • Review the OrgCon for your organization

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