BACKGROUND The moral hazards and poor public image of the insurance industry, arising from insurance agents' unethical behavior, affect both the normal operation of an insurance company and decrease applicants' confidence in the company. Contrarily, these scandals may demonstrate that the organizations were "bad barrels" in which insurance agents' unethical decisions were supported or encourage...

The focus of this selected bibliography is on the concept of organizational climate for creativity and change with particular emphasis on the Creative Climate Questionnaire (CCQ, the precursor to the SOQ) and the Situational Outlook Questionnaire ® (SOQ) both of which were designed to assess organizational climate and have been used as tools to promote and direct organizational change initiatives.

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate and strategic orientation. Information on HRM, organizational structure, and competitive strategy was c...

PROBLEM Although there has been considerable interest in safety climate, relatively little attention has been given to the factors that determine safety climate or to testing the hypothesized mediating role of safety climate with respect to safety-related outcomes. METHOD Questionnaire responses were obtained from 2,208 employees of a large national retail chain in 21 different locations. R...

Workforce diversity is one of the cornerstones of Indian Information Technology (IT) sector’s success as companies need to leverage the skills and talent of a diverse pool of employees. Diversity initiatives and programs in organizations are essentially implemented in order to improve the overall organizational diversity climate. Studies undertaken on diversity climate have revealed that a heal...

The Structural Relations among Culture and Organizational Health Mediated by Organizational Climate   R. Marzooghi, Ph.D.* J. Torkzaadeh, Ph.D. ** R. Badri Gargari, Ph.D. *** R. Rabavi, Ph.D. ****   With the aim of helping with the improvement of the organizational health at the Technical & Vocational University, the role of culture and organizational climate was explored i...

introduction: ethical climate is a part of organizational culture. organizational values deal with ethical issues and determine what is considered ethically correct. the ethical climate of an organization can predict unethical and ethical behaviors. this study aimed to investigate and model the structural equations between the intention to quit and ethical climate, job satisfaction, and organiz...

conclusions performing quality improvement pattern such as organization’s excellence plan improves organizational climate of healthcare sectors, it can reduce nurses’ intentions to leave and retain human resources. background human resource is the most important factor of performance, success and better revelation of excellence goals of each organization. by performing excellence plan, healthca...