Organizational Climate: Another Look at a Potentially Important Construct.

Abstract

Organizational climate is examined from the standpoint of the need to demonstrate interrater reliability (agreement) among individuals' perceptions of psychological climate. It is shown that if prior estimates of interrater reliability are accurate, then organizational climate is a moot issue. It is then demonstrated that at least some prior estimating procedures likely provided underestimates of interrater/perceptual agreement. A new procedure for estimating interrater reliability is suggested and illustrated. The new procedure provided substantially higher estimates of interrater reliability than prior methods. It is concluded that the concept of organizational climate is potentially salvageable, although more attention needs to be given to the appropriate level of explanation for climate variables. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 07, 1982
Accession Number
ADA113953

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People

  • Lawrence R. James

Organizations

  • Texas Christian University

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  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Applied Psychology
  • Data Science
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Perception
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistics

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