An Integration of Organisation Climate Research

This paper examines the development of theory and conceptual and research work in the area of organisation climate since 1958. Early attempts examined the interplay between organisation culture, organisation climate and psychological climate. Subsequently there were many attempts at developing instruments to measure organisation climate. A very large body of work examines various global indices describing single strategically focussed climates. Yet another stream of research examines the intersection of organisation climate with other constructs such as leadership, personality, etc., while the recent work examines the cross-cultural aspects of organisational climate. Taking into account all the earlier researches, this paper attempts to build a holistic model of organisational climate.