Organizational and Individual Characteristics, Organizational Climate, and Job Attitudes: A Multivariate Investigation of Responses at Individual and Group Levels of Analysis.
Abstract
Questionnaire data were gathered from 396 employees in 15 stores of a large retail merchandising organization. The questionnaire included demographic and organizational position items, an organizational climate measure and a job attitude instrument. The individual data were aggregated at the work group level to form group summary variables for 87 work groups. Canonical analyses were conducted to examine relationships between positional, demographic, climate, and attitudinal variables. These relationships were analyzed at both individual and group levels. Redundancy indices were used to summarize the relationships between the distinct variable sets. Climate was found to be slightly more predictable from positional variables while job attitudes were more predictable from demographic variables. Using demographic and positional variables in combination, climate was more predictable than were job attitudes. The same pattern of relationships was found at the group level of analyses. As expected, group level relationships were much stronger than those obtained at the individual level. Results are discussed in view of recent work on organizational climate suggested that climate represents a set of shared perceptions at some level above that of the individual.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA037746
Entities
People
- Charles L. Hulin
- Jeanne B. Herman
- Ralph Katerberg Jr.
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign