Research On The Relations Between Performance Management And Organizational Climate

Organizational climate has been one of the foci of the research on organization since 1960s Lots of research work has indicated the significant influence of organizational climate on employee's behavior,psychology and finally the organization performance. However,the climate itself is influenced by some other factors such as organizational structure,different types of leadership or management process,etc. This present study is to explore the relation between performance management process and organizational climate. Data were collected from 205 employees from 7 enterprises which respectively belong to foreign-funded,private-owned and state-owned entities using an anonymous survey measuring 5 key factors of the performance management process and 5 dimensions of the organizational climate related. Results show that:(1) 5 major factors are included in the organizational climate surveyed:flexibility,commitment,satisfaction,reward and standard.(2) High correlation between performance and satisfaction is found in each of the three types of the enterprises;no correlation or high negative correlation between performance management and reward is alsofound.(3) In both foreign-funded and state-owned enterprises correlation between performance management and commitment and standard is relatively high,while the relation to reward is relatively low.(4) Private-owned enterprises are quite different: each factor of the performance management is negatively correlated with flexibility;no correlation is found between performance management and commitment or standard On the contrary, in foreign-funded and state-owned enterprises positive correlation between performance management and commitment or standard is obvious.Directed by associate professor:Zhu Yuelong...