A STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE OF THE SELECTED STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA
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2013
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PAU Ludhiana
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The study was conducted in four state agricultural universities of India viz. PAU
Punjab (North); ANGRAU, Andhra Pradesh (South); AAU, Assam (East) and MPAUT,
Rajasthan (West) to study the variations in perceptions of the faculty and administrators
regarding the importance of dimension of organizational climate along with their perception
of prevailing and expected organizational climate. The data collected from the 216 faculty
members and 60 administrators using a scale developed on 13 dimensions viz.
communication, management of rewards, interpersonal relationships, control and supervision,
orientation, decision making, leadership, policies and rules, innovation, physical facilities,
team work, monetary gains and accountability/ evaluation revealed that communication
followed by leadership, team work and physical facilities were the most important dimensions
according to the faculty who ranked monetary gains, accountability/ evaluation, management
of rewards and control and supervision as least important. Administrators ranked
communication, leadership and decision making at the top and innovation, monetary gains
and management of rewards at the least important. There was a good agreement between
faculty and administrator of all selected SAU’s as well as between SAU’s in assigning ranks.
Faculty perceived highest gap between the prevailing and expected climate with regard to
orientation and monetary gains and lowest in management of rewards and interpersonal
relationship, whereas administrators found it to be highest in monetary gains and lowest in
decision making and communication. Age, income, job experience and training acquired were
significantly related with the perception. Faculty suggested improvement in communication
as one of the important ways to improve organizational climate.
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