Understanding Organisational Culture & Climate

Organisational climate has a much older roots in psychology and was strongly influenced by field theory. Organisational climate does not deal with values and norms and it is concerned with the current atmosphere in the organisation.

Meanwhile, Organisational culture focuses on sociology and looking at social reality from a variety of construction perspectives. Members of this organisation learn and communicate about what is acceptable and unacceptable in the organisation.

From the figure above, we can see that culture refers to deep structure of organisation which is rooted in the values, beliefs and assumptions held by the organisation members. While climate, in contrast portrays organisational environments as being rooted in the organisation’s value system.