Abstract
Climate has been viewed as a function of: (a) the organization's structure; (b) the organization's membership; and (c) more recently the memberships' efforts to understand the organization. The third view—interactionism—has been offered as a reconciliation of the objectivism of the first and the subjectivism of the second. The interactionist approach is extended here by a consideration of the roles of the workgroup, affect, corporate culture, symbolic management, and physical setting.
Keywords
ObjectivismSubjectivismWorkgroupSymbolic interactionismSociologyEpistemologyOrganizational cultureOrganisation climateFunction (biology)ManagementSocial scienceSocial psychologyPsychologyComputer sciencePhilosophyEconomics
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Blake E. Ashforth
(1985).
Climate Formation: Issues and Extensions.
Academy of Management Review
, 10
(4)
, 837-847.
https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1985.4279106
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- 10.5465/amr.1985.4279106