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