Organizational climate LO18524

DavidCLT@aol.com
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 07:55:36 EDT

Replying to LO18519 --

In a message dated 98-06-26 22:44:43 EDT, PRESSD@mail.state.wi.us writes:

>Organizational climate and organizational culture are two different
>topics, but you might want to check out the literature and decide for
>yourself whether you are investigating the organizational climate
>(organizational personality, hopes, attitudes, biases, feeling tones, or
>organizational mood) or the organizational culture (shared values,
>beliefs, assumptions, norms, artifacts and patterns of behavior) of your
>organization.

Dennis,
How do you make these distinctions?

Climate = org. personality, Culture = patterns of behavior
Climate = biases, Culture = assumptions
Climate = hopes, Culture = beliefs
Climate = feeling tones, Culture = artifacts

This is very confusing to me.

Warm regards, David

David L. Hanson, Ph.D.
Consulting Psychologist
Charlotte, NC

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