Culture is the conventionalized behavior our society (or group) that influences our actions. Culture has to do with the management styles: leadership, communication, decision making, etc. eg. leadership - autocratic, democratic, bureaucratic, communication - one way or two way, decision making participative or not, etc.
Climate is the human environment within which employees do their work. It has to do with the humanistic approach the superiors adopts . Elements of climate include: quality of leadership, trust, communication, meaningful work, responsibility, fairness in reward & recognition, reasonableness (in job allocation and pressures for output), controls, structural equality of opportunity, involvement, etc.
You will see certain elements overlapping. Both climate and culture can be measured and developed.
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