Who is influencing you? The contextual effects of organizational subclimates on employee attitude
by Schulte, Mathis, Ph.D., COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2008, 146 pages; 3317609

Abstract:

This study sought to contribute to the understanding of social influence within the organizational context by examining how the shared climate perceptions of coworkers are related to an employee's work-related attitude. While employees may share perceptions throughout the entire organization, groups within the organization may come to their own interpretation of the organizational context and thereby creating niches with unique and potent subclimates that can influence an employee's attitude. Using survey data collected from 2043 employees of an international financial services firm, I tested relationships between shared climate perceptions of coworkers within the same job categories, workgroups, and business units and individual work-related attitudes such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intentions. The results indicated that climate perceptions, when aggregated across employees in the same job category and business unit, respectively, were related to an employee's attitude even after controlling for the employee's own perceptions of the workplace. The findings of this study also started to shed light on the conditions under which subclimates are related to employee attitude. Most importantly, effects of subclimates were not universal but depended on the congruence of climate content and the group of people who shared the climate perceptions. That is, only perceptions that reflected the characteristics, processes, and norms of the coworkers who shared the perceptions were related to an employee's attitude.

 
AdviserJames Westaby
SchoolCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
SourceDAI/B 69-05, p. , Sep 2008
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsSocial psychology; Management; Occupational psychology; Organizational behavior
Publication Number3317609
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