Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-22T22:10:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 adriana.pdf: 1090377 bytes, checksum: bcf67d621c002e70e87a5e365bfb3f2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-24 / In recent decades the interest in quality of work life has been a field of remarkable developments, generating new debates in areas that aim to investigate people from different professions. The organizational environment influences the performance and welfare of employees. Promoting an organizational culture facilitates productivity, and increases the possibilities of high performance, furthermore contributes to the quality of life. The objective of this research is to gain knowledge of favorable indicators for the good organizational climate in the environment of a federal education institute, for that, instruments are being developed and adapted to different cultural contexts, therefore will be developed an instrument research with 58 objective questions, to be applied in Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas, Campus Presidente Figueiredo. The data obtained will be statistically analyzed using SPSS software. The objective was to analyze the dimensions of organizational climate that influence the productivity and welfare of the employees, which it will obtain the views of employees (professors and administratives) with relation to ten dimensions established. The employees will evaluate which indicators positively or negatively affect the work environment, this can result in high productivity or mistakes and rework. Lastly it`s expected to indicate strategies that can improve or enhance the welfare and quality of life of the employees. / Nas últimas décadas o interesse pela qualidade de vida no trabalho tem sido um campo de notáveis desenvolvimentos, dando lugar a novos debates em campos que têm como espaço privilegiado de investigação indivíduos de diferentes profissões. O ambiente organizacional influencia a performance e o bem estar dos colaboradores. A promoção de um clima organizacional favorável facilita a produtividade, bem como aumenta as possibilidades do alto desempenho, ademais contribui para a qualidade de vida das pessoas. Esse trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo dos indicadores favoráveis ao bom clima organizacional no ambiente de uma instituição federal, para tanto, instrumentos vêm sendo criados e adaptados a contextos culturais diversos, por conseguinte foi desenvolvido um instrumento de pesquisa, com 58 questões objetivas, que foi aplicado no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas, Campus Presidente Figueiredo. Os dados encontrados foram analisados estatisticamente através do software SPSS. Buscou-se analisar as dimensões do clima organizacional que influenciam a produtividade e o bem estar dos servidores da citada unidade, através de uma pesquisa quantitativa, a qual buscou obter a opinião dos servidores (técnicos administrativos e docentes) com relação às dez dimensões estabelecidas. Os servidores avaliaram quais indicadores influenciam positivamente ou negativamente o ambiente de trabalho, podendo acarretar alta produtividade ou erros e retrabalhos, por fim pôde-se indicar estratégias de melhoraria ou aperfeiçoamento para o bem estar e a qualidade de vida dos colaboradores.

As the nation’s healthcare system moves through the 21st century, unprecedented changes are occurring on both a local and global stage. Healthcare organizations are faced with creating and implementing leadership strategies to enhance the overall patient experience. When coupled with the need to ensure increased nurse job satisfaction, improved cost-effectiveness and healthy organizational cultures with fiscally sound budgets, improvement work has led efforts to ensure effective leadership techniques are used across an agency. This task may be viewed as commonplace for some organizations, while others may perceive this process as a complete paradigm shift from historical practices related to leadership style, behaviors and performance. A successful transition during this time of unprecedented change may depend on an organization’s ability to accept and implement the tenets of transformational leadership. Empirical research illustrates that transformational leadership empowers staff, increases job satisfaction and facilitates cost-effectiveness while constructing an environment conducive to the development of a supportive organizational culture. In an effort to ascertain the current state of leadership at a southeastern Veterans Affair Medical Center, this research study explored the self-reporting leadership practices of all supervisory staff employed at the facility. As a means of measurement, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) was coupled by demographic questionnaire developed by the researcher. Both measurement tools were used to collect the data.

The goal of this study was to extend the concept of safety climate into the aggression research domain. In order to address this goal I developed and validated the perceived workplace civility climate scale (PWCC), which assesses the extent to which employees perceive the importance an organization places upon managing and preventing acts of incivility and verbally aggressive actions in the workplace. The factor analytic results produced three factors: (1) Intolerance, (2) Response, and (3) Policies and Procedures. All dimensions demonstrated adequate reliability and correlated significantly to hypothesized stressors and strains. Lastly, correlation results (i.e., convergence) between self- and peer reports provided support that PWCC is a form of climate within organizations. Regression analyses indicated that the PWCC dimensions of intolerance and response are important predictors of individual and organizational strains.

In today’s information age, technological advances in virtually every industry allow organizations, both big and small, to create and store more data than ever before. Though data are highly abundant, they are still often underutilized resources with regard to improving organizational performance. The popularity and intrigue around big data specifically has opened up new opportunities to study how organizations embrace evidence and use it to improve their business. Generally, the focus of big data has mainly been on specific technologies, techniques, or its use in everyday life; however, what has been critically missing from the conversation is the consideration of culture and climate to support effective data use in organizations. Currently, many organizations want to develop a data-embracing climate or create changes to make their existing climates more data-informed. The purpose of this project was to develop a scale to assess the current state of data usage in organizations, which can be used to help organizations measure how well they manage, share, and use data to make informed decisions. I defined the phenomena of a data-embracing climate based on reviewing a broad range of business, computer science, and industrial-organizational psychology literature. Using this definition, I developed a scale to measure this newly defined construct by first conducting an exploratory factor analysis, then an item retranslation task, and finally a confirmatory factor analysis. This research provides support for the reliability and validity of the Albrecht Data-Embracing Climate Scale (ADEC); however, the future of this new area of research could benefit by replicating the results of this study and gaining support for the new construct. Implications for science and practice are discussed. I sought to make a valuable contribution to the field of I-O psychology and to make a useful instrument for researchers and practitioners in multiple and diverse fields. I hope others will benefit from this scale to measure how organizations use evidence from data to make informed decisions and gain a competitive advantage beyond intuition alone. Do not cite without express permission from the author.

Satisfied employees are essential to an organization, as they are the primary means for meeting organizational needs. Employees who are more satisfied at work are less likely to leave their job or think about leaving their job, less likely to feel burnt out or stressed, and perform better at work. Job satisfaction is particularly important among criminal justice agencies, specifically probation agencies which largely rely on personnel for the supervision and rehabilitation of offenders. Yet the correlates of job satisfaction among juvenile probation staff are largely unknown. Theory suggests that organizational characteristics are influential predictors of job satisfaction across occupational domains. This current body of research is limited due to its predominant focus on institutional corrections, a deficiency in assessing a diverse variety of climate domains and their influence on job satisfaction, and a lack of standard factor analytic techniques. Accordingly, the goal of this study is to address these gaps within the current body of research and examine the correlates of job satisfaction among juvenile probation staff. First, the psychometrics properties of six perceived organizational climate domains (i.e., innovation and flexibility, communication, agency quality, supervisory support, job–related stress, and organizational support) and job satisfaction are evaluated. Second, salient personal and organizational characteristics which influence job satisfaction are identified. Specifically, the model evaluates both direct and indirect effects of perceived organizational climate characteristics on job satisfaction, as mediated through perceptions of job-related stress. Third, the study assesses whether job satisfaction varies across agencies. Towards this goal, the study uses baseline data from the Juvenile Justice – Translational Research on Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) initiative, a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded research project conducted in seven states with 36 participating juvenile probation agencies. Data are especially useful in the identification of job satisfaction correlates because they provide information on personal and organizational factors for a large sample of juvenile probation staff. This study used a number of analytic techniques including bivariate analyses, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, path analysis, and multivariate analyses. Findings from the current study expand our understanding of the influence of personal and organizational factors on job satisfaction to an understudied population. Overall, juvenile probation staff reported moderate levels of job satisfaction. Furthermore, results highlight the importance of work-place factors and suggest efforts towards increasing job satisfaction and staff retention should focus on the improvement of organizational characteristics.

The main goal of this research is to discuss the impact on organization management performance based on organizational climate and management control system. This research analyzes the corporate organizational climate by organizational climate scale (Litwin & Stringer, 1968); moreover, the type of the corporate management control system is identified by face-to-face interview and the performance of management is measured by financial indicators. The result of this research shows that there is a significantly positive correlation between management control type and the subjective performance of management, and therefore the type of management control has significantly influence on the subjective performance of corporate management. As for the aspect of management control type, the management performance using procedure control and output control simultaneously would be better than that only using output control

This study is focused on how characters of management control system affect organizational climate and the how the relation between those two factors guide performance in different organizations. With four diffent case studies in Taiwan, this study found three types of reaction in management control system, organizational climate and organizational performance: mediator model, moderating model and interactive model. This study showed that the relationship among management control system, organizational climate and performance are not in a given type; there would be various possible mixes in their relationship. In mediator model, management control system is an important factor to improve performance and the awareness of organizational climate in employee directly affected the guiding effects of management control system to organizational performance. According to the previous finding, an environment makes the employee have better awareness about organizational climate will help managers to reach the performance goals with management control systems. In moderating model, organizational climate moderate the linkeage between managemeant control system and the awareness of performance in employee. It is not ony the factor to adjust effects of management control system but also change managers¡¦ designs of management control system and moderate the relationsip on management control system and performance. Organizational performance could be improved when managers design indicators and controlling mechanism with considered interactive effects in organizational climate. This study also found that industrial characters will affect operational process of management control system and awareness of organizational climate in employee. Due to professional knowledge is an important factor for employee in service industry to provide servive to their customers, attendance rate and safety of customers are two important indicators to management control system in such industry. According to this reaesch, the case in service industry put more focus on this performance item than the cases in manufacturing industry, so the study found the characters of industrial technology will also a factor to affect the design of management control system

This purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between employees¡¦ perception on organizational climate and job involvement, and the moderating effect of employ types. This research involves all employees belonging to the I Research Laboratory, as experimental subjects for questionnaire surveys. We used the personal characteristics as the controlled variables, the organizational climate as an independent variable, the employ type as a moderate variable and the job involvement as a dependent variable. A total of 569 questionnaires were delivered and got 339 valid questionnaires. Based on the valid questionnaires, the hierarchical regression analysis and the Pearson¡¦s correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. Major empirical findings are summarized as follows: 1.There are significant differences in job involvement among difference education degree. 2.There are significant correlations between the awareness of the organizational climate and the job involvement. 3.The employ type has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between organizational climate and job involvement.

The aim of this master’s final paper is to research the peculiarities of organizational climate expression in the enterprise of the energetics sector – Šiauliai branch of the joint-stock company “Lietuvos dujos” using the organizational climate crisis test created by a scientific group of Prof. G. Merkys and the elements of qualitative research. Scientific sources about organizational culture, human resources and organizational climate have been analyzed in this paper. The diagnostic research has disclosed significant differences in expression of organizational climate in separate departments of the branch. There is the necessity of management intervention in some of them. The diagnostic research has been extended using a half-structured qualitative interview in order to corroborate the results of the test and to find out the reasons for differences of organizational climate expression in separate departments of the branch. The results have shown that the main factor, which decides organizational climate in the researched branch, is leaders’ behaviour and a leadership style.

The aim of the paper is to analyse the expression of organizational climate in institution of higher education (university), i.e. in a chosen division (faculty) and its work teams (3 departments and the dean’s office) while using a full standardized test of climate crisis created and adapted by G. Merkys et al. (2005), retest the expression of humanistic approach towards human resource management. This Master’s paper is an independent part of a collegial diagnostic research project reflecting and systematizing the theoretical peculiarities of organizational climate concepts of different Lithuanian and foreign authors, emphasizing organizational climate and organizational culture differences in human resource management and organizational psychology; applying the specific methodological aspects of the concrete institution and its work teams; reasoning the data processed by typical SPSS program. The scientific research hypothesis that the organizational climate in institution of higher education (university) is uneven, uncongenial, therefore, demanding some specific managerial intervention has been proved partly. On May 4th, 2006 the author took part in the 6th conference for Junior Researchers “Urgent Issues of Economics and Management” organized by Šiauliai University, Faculty of Social Sciences, and read the article: “Organizational Climate Concept Treatment in Management and Organizational Psychology”.