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This digital document is an article from Public Personnel Management, published by International Personnel Management Association on September 22, 1994. The length of the article is 6033 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Industrial/organizational psychology is concerned with empirically testing relationships between concepts that are purported to reflect behaviour in the workplace. This study tested the relationship between measures on three personnel management practices (as independent variables) and a measure of organizational climate (as the dependent variable). The Litwin and Stringer Organizational Climate Questionnaire was administered to 2,111 subjects employe in a sample of 40 organizations. Structured interviews with senior personnel executives were conducted in these organizations to establish measures of participation, proaction, and management style. Factor analysis was used to derive a general measure of climate. The results of this measure were analyzed at the organizational level. The results of this study raise two important implications for industrial/organizational psychology. The first is that much o the theory associated with personnel management practice is not reflected in th workplace. The second is that current conceptualizations from which such measures are derived, are ambiguous and lack clarity. It is suggested that industrial/organizational psychology needs to reduce the semantic ambiguity of its concepts, and consequently improve the construct validity of measures of these constructs.

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Title: The relationship between organizational climate and employee perceptions of personnel management practices.
Author: Paul Toulson
Publication: Public Personnel Management (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: International Personnel Management Association
Volume: v23 Issue: n3 Page: p453(16)

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #7417403 in Books
• Published on: 1994-09-22
• Released on: 2005-07-28
• Format: HTML
• Binding: Digital
• 21 pages