INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE ON EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT (HR PROJECTS)

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Organizations are more concerned about maintaining an effective organizational climate now because of fast growth and competition. It can be made a competitive advantage of the company.

There has been a lot of research on the topic of organizational climate and its impacts. The earliest researches can be tracked back to 1930s. Organizational climate is synonymous with corporate environment. It is the direction to measure the culture of an organization. It comprises of many components which shape up the environment both directly and indirectly influencing employee attitudes and behavior.

Researchers suggest that organizational culture is very closely related to organizational climate. Early researches such as Hawthorn studies were one of the pioneers in this topic. The main aim or objective of the research was to study the effect of environment or surroundings of employees and also to study the effect of different variables on their behaviors.Thus a concept of organizational climate came into being. (K.Selvarajan, 2014)

Organization Climate has a rich history and implementations in both industrial and organizational set ups. Kurt Lewin was one the first researcher who studies about this concept and presented an argument that behavior is a product of an individual and the environment surrounding him or her. Organizational climate studies took the stage in late 1970s and the focus was to integrate the climate research into a broader spectrum and also studies on related concepts of satisfaction and organizational structure.

Understanding the concept of climate became more important as the organizations grew and more awareness spread regarding this concept. Previously organization climate was seen as a set of objectives, structures, size, policies and organizational characteristics. Climate plays a great role in developing and enforcing positivity in the employee’s behaviors, motivation levels, commitment and loyalty etc. (Castro & Martins, 2010)

Organizational Climate is a set of important propositions in order to understand the employee behavior in a particular organization. As mentioned before, many researches have been conducted to study this phenomenon. Studies have been done to understand the role and importance of organizational climate in shaping up the employee behaviors, the negatives and the positives, the impacts and outcomes.