ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE IN THE FUNCTION OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT

Mario Bogdanović

Abstract


This paper elaborates the concept of organizational climate and its relationship with human resource management. First of all, theoretical inconsistencies of concept, content, research and application issues will be resolved. After that, the main research approaches and results in the area of organizational climate are presented. In the context of human resource management and organizational efficacy improvement, the potential benefits of organizational climate management have been determined. Further on, it is determined the basic connection of organizational climate with human resource management because organizational climate can be treated as special function or practice of human resource management, but also it can be treated as a consequence of all the management and human resource management practices, i.e. one of the measures of its efficacy. Therefore, the paper gives the insight in the complex area of organizational climate management in business organization in the context of human resource management improvement.

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human resource management, organizational efficacy, organizational climate, organizational culture

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