Organizational climate is the level of agreement in perceptions about the organization and work environment among employees. climate research is concerned with representing employees’ shared perceptions of values in a static way as states that they experience at a point in time.

A key distinction between culture and climate is that culture is viewed as evolving over time and is studied from a sociology or anthropology viewpoint. Climate can be altered through management interventions. In sum, the difference between culture and climate is that culture is an evolved context and climate is a situation that employees are in.

(1)   Caring - “Our major concern is always what is best for the other person.”

(2)   Law and Code - “People are expected to comply with the law and professional standards over and above other considerations.”
(3)   Rules - “Everyone is expected to stick by company rules and procedures.”
(4)   Instrumental - “In this company, people are mostly out for themselves.”
(5)   Independence - “Each person in this company decides for themselves what is right and wrong.”