【公开学术报告】Climate Strength: A Meta-Analytic Review

Topic: Climate Strength: A Meta-Analytic Review

Date & Time: 9:30-11:00am, Thur. 15^th, November 2018

Venue: Room 2101, Tongji Building A

Language: English

Speaker：Dr. Ashley Bin Ding (HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne)

ABSTRACT

Organizational climate refers to employees’ shared perceptions of the policies, procedures, and practices that are rewarded, supported, and expected in a given organizational environment. There are two key facets of organizational climate: climate level, which is the positiveness of organizational climate, and climate strength, which reflects the consensus of employee perceptions regarding organizational climate. This research focuses on the latter. Since it is proposed in the late 1990s, climate strength appeals to most organizational climate researchers and receives increasing empirical examination on its antecedents, outcomes, and its moderating effect in the relationship between climate level and outcomes. The current research synthesizes the literature of climate strength in a comprehensive research model and examines the model in a meta-analysis (k = 39). Our results suggest that unit size, social interaction and communication, general positive leadership and organizational practices are significantly related to climate strength. Our results also indicate that climate strength is linked to employee attitudes, job performance and customer outcomes. Furthermore, we find that climate strength moderates the relationship between climate level and collective outcomes, and this moderating effect is contingent on the type of organizational climate, research design and measure of climate strength. Research and practical implications are discussed.