Saturday, July 5, 2008

Organizational Climate or Culture?


Organizational climate is the internal emotional tone of the organization based on how comfortable organizational members feel with one another and with the organization. Gib has identified two kind of climate such as defensive climate and supportive climate. There are five elements in supportive climate such as supportiveness, credibility, openness, participatory decision making and emphasis on high performance goals. The climate of the organization is more crucial than are communication skills or techniques in creating an effective organization. The manager or the boss should have open door policy which can give opportunity to the subordinate to communicate and give their opinion about something. Organization culture is concerned with the belief and value system of that organization. One might think of the culture as the weather factors and the climate as the weather conditions.