Abstract
Psychological climate is defined as employees' perceptions of their work environment and has been the focus of considerable research in organizational psychology. Measures of psychological climate are intended to assess work environments as they are cognitively represented in terms of their psychological meaning and significance to the individual. Examples of psychological climate dimensions include, but are not limited to, role clarity, job importance, leader support, and workgroup cooperation. This article examines the development of psychological climate research from its conception in the early 1960s to its current state with an emphasis on recent research (e.g., whether a hierarchical structure of psychological climate exists) and probable future research directions in this area.
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