Identificación de las dimensiones culturales que afectan el clima y la fuerza del clima laboral en Ecuador

Abstract

The use of foreign tools and methodologies to perform organizational climate studies in public and private companies in Ecuador, adapted to the national context, motivated the identification of cultural dimensions of their own, which are considered influential in climate measurement, according to public and private Ecuadorian officials. This will allow the design and validation of instruments that encompass the national cultural and labor context, with the aim of obtaining results closer to reality when measuring the work climate in Ecuadorian organizations. The dimensions identified as influential in the Ecuadorian context are: organizational innovation, managerial approach and leadership, organizational motivation, performance recognition, organizational structure, cooperation, interpersonal relationships, decision making, control and justice processes. For this, a tool was created and validated statistically to measure the working climate in Ecuadorian organizations, based on the aforementioned cultural dimensions, incorporating the concept of labor force strength, which demonstrated the existence of three levels of climate: Work, working group and organization. For the case of this study, the sample was 832 respondents and it was demonstrated that the tool is reliable, since it presents Cronbach alpha values higher than 0.8, indicating a high index of internal consistency. The tool for each dimension and overall shape is reliable. In addition, the results allow to assert that the tool is a good instrument, explaining 69% of what happens at the level of organizational culture and its relationship with the climate. Finally, for all of the above, it can be affirmed that the tool is valid for the measurement of climate at the level of position, group and organization, as well as the cultural dimensions that affect the climate at each of these levels.