ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE
Organizational environment. Organizational behavior. Personnel management.
This paper seeks to study the Organizational Environment at the Rio Grande do Norte Legislative House-ALRN, and its general purpose consists in assessing the organizational environment based on the perception that the effective, yielded and commissioned civil servants of that institution develop together towards the ALRN. Exploratory-descriptive research was the methodological choice applied to reach the looked-for objectives. The research procedure is a case-study. On the other hand, quantitative research was applied side along a semi-structured questionnaire, following a review of the literature concerning the study and taking into account the organizational environment research (2011) that Saback applied at the ALRN. The guide-lines of the paper have approached the following items: Professional development; Relation and communication at the workplace; Work identity and commitment; and Workplace co-operation and sensibility. The final result highlighted the Professional development dimension as the one presenting the lowest punctuation in general. In view of their links, the commissioned and yielded civil servants gave good grades to this category; the stable civil servants, however, did not detect any sign of professional development in this dimension, and their low grade affected it negatively. In this regard, managers should try and assess this result, seen that effective civil servants are in thesis a stable staff at ALRN, so this assessment could mean lack of motivation and perspective in the workplace, what could be contraire to the environment. As what concerns a comparison between the summary available in Square 11 and the link-like one in Square 12, it confirms a rank trend favoring the organizational environment, highlighted by commissioned and yielded civil servants, in contrast with the stable staff. One should note, however, that the Identity and work commitment dimension was the best assessed, alike the variable “I am decided to play a responsible role in my work, regardless my boss’s exigencies”, as the workers showed disposition and commitment to the job. Another positive factor pointed out in the research concerns relation and communication, expressed by a harmonious conviviality among the staff’s members, irrespective to whatever link, showing a respectful way of managing the culture of plurality of ideas, determinant factor inside a politician house. Therefore, in accordance with the exposure, it is perceptible that among the five dimensions that have been studied, four of them indicate positive assessment of the environment. In this way, seeing the collected and analyzed data, it can be concluded that the organizational environment inside ALRN is positive.