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Download full textSchneider, Benjamin – 1974
Part 1 of this paper presents some logical and conceptual distinctions between job satisfaction and organizational climate, the former being viewed as micro, evaluative, individual perceptions of personal events and experiences the latter as macro, relatively descriptive, organizational level perceptions that are abstractions of organizational…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Concept Formation, Employer Employee Relationship, Individual Differences
Schneider, Benjamin – 1974
In considering the success outcomes associated with a new life insurance agent entering an agency which fits his climate expectations and preferences, data were compiled from 914 of a possible 1,125 respondents. The agents completed an Agency Climate Questionnaire (ACQ) on managerial support, managerial structure, new employee concern,…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Expectation, Goodness of Fit
Schneider, Benjamin – 1974
Some "hidden" consequences of an organization's goals, practices, and procedures on the climates created for employees were reviewed, beginning with an exploration of some potential impacts of a lack of fit between goals and means to obtain goals on climate and eventual employee behavior, referring particularly to differences between product- and…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employees, Employer Employee Relationship, Organizational Climate
Schneider, Benjamin; Synder, Robert A. – 1974
Relationships among two measures of job satisfaction and one of organizational climate, among seven production and turnover indices of organizational effectiveness, and between the two sets of measures were investigated in 50 life insurance agencies (N=522). It was shown that: (1) climate and satisfaction measures are correlated for some people…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Insurance Companies, Job Satisfaction
Peer reviewedSchneider, Benjamin – Personnel Psychology, 1987
Presents a framework for understanding the etiology of organizational behavior, based on theory and research from interactional psychology, vocational psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and organizational theory. Proposes that organizations are functions of the kinds of people they contain and that the people there are functions of…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Individual Characteristics, Industrial Psychology, Models
Schneider, Benjamin – 1974
The benefits of clustering organizations into types were discussed, and a method for clustering life insurance agencies by climate profiles was presented. Clusters of life insurance agencies were identified on the basis of manager, assistant manager, and already-employed ("old") agents' climate perceptions. Agency success, including production of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Classification, Cluster Grouping, Employee Attitudes
