Employees’ Perception of Organizational Climate and Its Implications for Organizational Effectiveness in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

The growing significance placed on understanding of employees and their
behaviour within the organization has produced a great deal of interest in
investigating employees perceptions of climate within the organization
especially, at times of significant change is taking place. The study aimed at
determining the level of Organizational Climate (OC) as perceived by the civil
servants and find out whether there is meaningful relationship between OC and
Organizational effectiveness (OE). The research followed a quantitative
approach and descriptive and causal designs while the data was analyzed using
parametric statistical tools such as multiple linear regressions, Pearson’s
Product-moment Correlation Coefficients, Independent-samples T- test, and
One-way ANOVA T-test. Overall, the findings are: the independent aggregate
variables; Human Relations Values (HRV) and Open Systems Values (OSV)
positively and significantly predicted the dependent variable (OE) and 32.5%
of the variation in OE is explained by HRV and OSV combined. The research
results will have implications to policy makers and future researches in that it
might contribute for promoting a fundamental improvement in efficiency and
performance of organizations as well as job satisfaction of employees.