Study note on organizational atmosphere

Study note on organizational atmosphere

References with extracted contents

Teymourpour, S., S. Mohammadi, H.a. Almassi, S. Beygi, L. Jabari, F. Alipoor and S. Beigazadeh. 2013. "Effects of Organizational Atmosphere on the Establishment of Communications Among Employees from Kermanshah City Offices" World Applied Programming, Vol (3), Issue (9), September 2013. 451-458.

"Organizational atmosphere creates various feelings and imaginations inside individuals, resulting in a specific way of communications and interactions among people. As an organization, an office influences raising individuals skills, and attitude knowledge and helps to realize effects raising and formation of communications, interactions, and behaviors of employees such as group cooperation, intimacy taking responsibility, low-orientation and law-acceptance, and gaining self-esteem. Organizational atmosphere is defined as a key element in offices, having strong reasons concerning individuals social and cognitive growth because individuals behavioral problems are reduced when they feel they belong to such an environment as an office.... . Sweeni (1988, quoted by Alihjani.2004) considers organizational atmosphere as a term being used to describe people’s feelings about their own organizations, ...... such atmosphere is the relatively stable quality of an office environment experienced by individuals, influencing their behaviors and being based on collective perceptions of people of the office";

"....Taji Youri considers atmosphere as an environmental characteristic which can be defined, described, and interpreted by specific features and influence individuals attitudes and motivations";

"Unhealthy and undesirable organizational atmosphere can create an environment full of suspicion and hostility which leads any participatory and cooperative management to failure (Alaghehband, 1998). Unhealthy and undesirable organizational atmosphere can be the source of occurrence of employees and clients negative reactions. The importance of studying organizational atmosphere of office and making efforts to reform and improve it in order to increase effectiveness and efficiency of offices as well as paying attention to individuals human rights require the existence of healthy and desirable organizational atmosphere at schools";

Aghdaie, S.F.A. and M.A. Behpouri. 2015. "Investigating the Relation Between Organizational Atmosphere with Self-Efficiency and Organizational Commitment (Case Study Iran's Customer Headquarters"  International Review of Management and Business Research 4(1) March: 177-188.

"Organizational atmosphere is a relatively stable feature that causes difference from other organizations and social perception involves factors such as independence, trust and continuity, support, identify, recognition, innovation and impartiality is manifested in and it is creating through the interaction between members. It used as basis to change situation and reflective norms, values and attitudes of organizational culture. Also acts as effective source to forming behavior";

"Heavy and Miskel (1379) believed that behavior in organization isn’t derived from formal expectations, personal needs or organizational goals, rather it’s a consequence of dynamic relationships between these elements and organization atmosphere is a internal quality that distinguishes organizations from each other

and help personnel to have a better mental condition";

Ranjbar, R.F., M. Kohandel and A. Khodayari. 2014. "The relationship between organizational atmosphere, job satisfaction and ministry of youth and sports  of Islamic Republic of Iran staffs' life quality" European Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014, 4(2):264-270.

"There are some attributes to compare and identify the organizations; one of the significant attributes is organizational atmosphere or people’s understanding and feeling of their working organization. It is possible to determine staffs’ performance using the attribute; and therefore, it is possible to determine staffs’ performance and affect their level of responsibility and the fulfillment of organizational objectives which ensure the society health [3].Organizational atmosphere is a crucial factor in determining the organizational effectiveness [4]";

"Hajloo (2012) investigated a research project on the relationship between job stress and life quality of university staffs, satisfied with their organizational atmosphere. The results showed that satisfaction of organizational atmosphere was significantly correlated with life quality. However, there was a negative relationship between job stress and life quality. More to this, it was found that job stress and satisfaction of organizational atmosphere was negatively correlated. Furthermore, the findings of the study demonstrated that the variables of job stress and life quality could predict organizational atmosphere";

Julmi, Christian (2017) "The Concept of Atmosphere in Management and Organization Studies," Organizational Aesthetics: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, 4-30.

"There is a growing body of research across disciplines and fields arguing that the atmosphere constitutes a vital aspect of social life and experience ....... If this is true, the atmosphere is also highly relevant for management and organization studies dealing with people experiencing their environment. Indeed, in many contexts such as contemporary consumption habits, “the concept of ‘atmosphere’ is certainly back in vogue” (Degen, Melhuish, & Rose, 2015, p. 6). In organization studies, scholars are increasingly focusing on emotional phenomena that exceed the private inner sphere of a psychological state";

"Marketing management is arguably the research field within management studies with the longest tradition of studying atmospheres, namely store atmospheres. Since Kotler’s (1973) famous article on atmospherics as a marketing tool, the study of store atmospheres and their effects on the consumer’s reaction have become a well-established line of research within marketing management. Kotler defines atmosphere as “the air surrounding a sphere” or “the quality of the surroundings” (p. 50) and dissects its perception into the main sensory channels sight, sound, scent, and touch";

"Another line of research which can somehow be connected to the notion of atmosphere is the study of group dynamics. Within this line of research, the term atmosphere is used rather unsystematically, often remains undefined and is hardly traceable to distinct historical roots. Nevertheless, the notion of atmosphere reflects distinct concepts in some works. Here, atmosphere is mostly seen as a psychological variable reflecting the individual’s perception of the overall group atmosphere, usually measured by a specific scale or score. Early investigation of group atmospheres are reflected in a number of field studies from Lewin and his colleagues, regarding the social or group atmosphere as one of the key characteristics of an individual’s psychological field, although an explicit definition of the term atmosphere is not provided";

"The concept of socio-moral atmosphere is reflected in relatively few works within management and organization studies. Initially, the concept was introduced by Kohlberg and his colleagues to investigate moral decision making in school environments .... The concept of socio-moral atmosphere takes into account that moral action takes place in a specific social or group context influencing moral decision making. The socio-moral atmosphere refers to the collective norms of a group, understood as prescriptions arising from shared expectations within the group. The moral  decision is conceptualized as a function of the group’s socio-moral atmosphere, meaning that moral decision making depends on the socio-moral atmosphere of a group";