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Organizational climate and workplace efficiency

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  • Brian Hunt
  • Toni Ivergard

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The subject organization of this article is the government employment agency in Sweden. The agency is a key component of the national labour market focusing specifically on placing the unemployed and job-seekers in work. The agency also administers the processes of providing benefits to the unemployed. We describe the agency, its work and some of its special features and its workforce. We discuss how these features impact on organizational climate and performance. We outline the characteristics of a cadre organization, and particularly how features of this type of organization influence workplace climate. We discuss the ways in which workplace climate contributes to workplace performance. Finally, we review two empirical studies of the agency and its workforce and use data from these studies to augment our discussions. The agency is a real-life organization managing real world issues. Complexities abound. We attempt to unravel some of these complexities.

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  • Brian Hunt & Toni Ivergard, 2007. "Organizational climate and workplace efficiency," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 27-47, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:27-47
    DOI: 10.1080/14719030600853501
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    Cited by:

    1. Vogel, Dominik & Kroll, Alexander, 2019. "Agreeing to Disagree? Explaining Self–Other Disagreement on Leadership Behaviour," SocArXiv 62ngj, Center for Open Science.
    2. Brian Hunt, 2011. "Managing Change and Transformation in Government Organizations," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(6), pages 889-893, September.

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