Biographical
and Personality Predictors of Organizational Climate
A. Furnham & B. Gunter |
This
study examined biographical and personality predictors of 14 perceived
climate factors in two different British organisations form the public
and private sectors. Eight biographical variables (sex, age, salary,
status in the organization, length of service, number of promotions,
number of organizations worked for, grade) and work-locus of control
were correlated with fourteen internally reliable perceived climate
dimensions. The nine biographical/personality factors were regressed
onto each of the climate factors in each of the two organizations.
Work locus of control was a significant predictor of nearly all climate
dimensions in the public organization accounting for an much as 30%
of the variance, while salary was a more powerful predictor in the
private company. These results were discussed in terms of the literature
on corporate climate.
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