| Abstract [eng] |
GUDŽINSKAITĖ, Neringa. (2009) The Influence of Organizational Climate on Employees’ Motivation. MBA Graduation Paper. Kaunas: Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius University. 75 p. Theme relevance. Much attention in the organization is payed to the personnel management because the employees are the potencial to survive and prosper in dinamic business environment. Trying to pursue success at contemporary conditions it is important to create conductive, positive, motivating organizational climate. The subject of this research – the influence of organizational climate on employees’ motivation. The goals of search work: 1. To study various interpretations of organizational climate concept in accordance with scientific literature. 2. To analyse what are distinguished dimensions of organizational climate. 3. To ascertain theoretical links between organizational climate and employees‘ motivation. 4. To analyse empirical level of the influence of organizational climate on employees‘ motivation. 5. To form a model which demonstrates the influence of organizational climate on employees‘ motivation. 6. To examine how organizational climate influence the level of motivation in chosen organizations. The main conclusions. Estimated key climate dimensions which influence employees‘ perceptions and are represented in various scales are rewards and appraisal, autonomy or group work and cooperation, management competence and/or support, organizational clarity. The organizational climate influence organizational and psychological processes which include motivation, attitudes, satisfaction of the employees. The model of organizational climate influence on employees‘ motivation demonstrates that climate effects motivation through its dimentions, which correlate with the needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. Performed empirical research in four stars hotels located in Kaunas during March of 2009 proved that nine dimensions of organizational climate has statistical significant low influence on basic needs of employees‘ motivation that are satisfied very well in investigated organizations. The extent of work. The search work consist of introduction, 3 parts and conclusions. The main part is described in 74 pages, 15 tables and 9 illustrations included. The list of used literature consist of 63 sources. |
