Organizational Climate Typology:A Thematic Analysis

The growing significance placed on understanding employees and their behavior within the organization has produced a great deal of interest in investigating employee perceptions of organizational climate. Despite the rich and growing body of literature on the topic, a negligible comprehensive typology of organizational climate exists. This research aims to provide a typology of organizational climate. The research method is a mix one and a sequential exploratory approach is used. In order to analyze the collected data through systematic review in the qualitative section, thematic analysis was used. Data were coded first manually and next by MAXQDA software. Qualitative Results show 437 primary codes, 37 basic themes, 5 organizing themes and 2 global themes that were presented in the form of a network themes. The findings of the qualitative section were submitted to 21 behavioral management university experts in the form of a validation questionnaire. The experts approved all identified themes with minor modifications. Finally, according to the findings and based on Bailey’s (1994) method, the following six organizational climates were recognized: functional, dysfunctional, friendly, antagonistic, transcendental and nontranscendental.