An Empirical Study on Motivational Analysis of Organizational Climate (MAO-C) at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun

Every organization has a structure and systems. Most also have norms, values and traditions; and these three elements constitute the organizational culture. The main actors in the organization are its top leaders. They and the other employees have their own individual needs in addition to those of the organization. All of these organizational components-structure, systems, culture, leader behavior and the psychological needs of employees-interact with one another and create what may be called “organizational climate”. According to Guion, organizational climate is one of the most important concepts to enter into the theory of organizations in this century. The intensive research as well as databases on its conceptualization and assessment during the past five decades has helped to develop organizational climate as a mature concept in management. The concept has also proved to be useful in predicting and explaining a variety of job related behaviours, attitudes, performance as well as organizational performance on a variety of dimensions. There are several frameworks and approaches to study organizational climate. One such framework focuses on the effect of organizational climate on motivation. Because climate affects people's motivation; a framework based on motivation seems to be quite relevant in studying organizational climate. However, there is a dearth of research in India on assessing organizational climate from the view point of motivation. The present study uses a comprehensive framework that focuses on assessing organizational climate from the view point of motivation in Forest Research Institute (FRI), India.