Converging and Diverging Concepts in Culture and Climate Research: Cultate or Climure? (original) (raw)

Culture and Climate in Health Care Organizations, 2010

Abstract

Are culture and climate different aspects of organizations, or are they the same general construct? In one sense, there is an easy way to cut through the tangled thicket of this question. It depends on the definitions used to explain the concepts, and the perspectives taken in characterizing them. In this paper, we briefly trace the roots of the terms culture and climate, and discuss their manifestations and conceptualizations in contemporary theory and research. Although it is clear that much depends on how culture and climate are defined, we emphasize the commonalities and explore the links between them. We introduce some evidence drawn from an Australian study of 22 randomly sampled, stratified health care organizations. This was part of a large-scale national research project into health sector organizational behaviour. The findings provide a gate-way into understanding contrasting and converging views of culture and climate, particularly in terms of statistical relationships between the two concepts. The implications of this for research, practice, and teaching are discussed.

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