The Impact of the Leadership Style on the Organizational Climate in a Public Entity (original) (raw)

2014, Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy Journal

Many previous researches had explored the concepts of leadership styles and organizational climate, but just a very few had explored them together. erefore, in order to be able to build a theoretical basis to this topic and then to develop a case study to emphasise the relationship between the leadership style implemented within a public sector entity and the organizational climate characteristics found in there, I immersed myself into the speci c literature and considered di erent theoretical patterns in particular for the above mentioned concepts. People's general perception is that public organizations rarely achieve their objectives, the employees are not doing their job properly and there is no e ciency in using neither resources nor proper motivation of employees. is negative image could be a projection of the internal dissatisfaction towards payment, recognition, career prospects and leader's behaviour. Consequently, a deeper leader's actions analysis will provide further information on this perception and so will do the study of the organisational climate. e concept of organizational climate has a great deal of components through which it can be de ned. Some of the organizational climate essential factors are: the structure, motivation, interpersonal relations, exibility, support, communication, information, working conditions, rules and regulations, objectives, management and leadership. People tend to internalize the organizational climate and as a result the way they perceive it has an important role on their behaviour. us, there is a strong relationship between the leader's behaviour and the organisational climate. It is known that a leader's best way of action depends on a series of situational factors and the employees' level of professionalism is one of them. Public sector leaders should also adapt themselves to the organisational climate requirements and should adopt a more exible working system. rough their approach leaders have to succeed to motivate talent, capability and reward consistency. e relation with their employees should upgrade to absolute trust and open communication. rough all of these, public leadership will achieve performance and will also strengthen the organization's reputation and image. For a better understanding of the leadership process within a certain kind of climate into a public entity, we have conducted a survey by applying two questionnaires: the rst one is to identify the leadership style operational into the entity and the second one is to analyze The Impact of the Leadership Style on the Organizational Climate in a Public Entity 156 | Carmen NOVAC, Crina Iulia BRATANOV (2014) the organisational climate variables. e leadership questionnaire is a tool created based on the Hersey-Blanchard leadership model-leadership styles against the maturity of employees. e second questionnaire used was Ticu Constantin's organisational climate questionnaire through which the organisational climate intensity within the entity was measured. We would like to think that the outcome of the study is a supportive indicator when it comes to assess the results and performance in the studied organisation.