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Psychological Climate as an Antecedent of Job Satisfaction & Job Involvement


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Studies pertaining to human resource (HR) management in India have revealed a variety of factors that significantly affect employees attitude towards their jobs not the least of which is their perception about the immediate job environment or the psychological climate. The present study posits two attitudinal variables of job satisfaction and job involvement as consequences of psychological climate. Data were collected from 357 mangers/executives and subject to multivariate data analysis procedures. The results established that psychological climate is a statistically significant predictor of positive levels of job satisfaction and job involvement. The theoretical and practical connotations of the study and possible areas of future research are also discussed.
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Soumendu Biswas
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon- 122001, India

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Studies pertaining to human resource (HR) management in India have revealed a variety of factors that significantly affect employees attitude towards their jobs not the least of which is their perception about the immediate job environment or the psychological climate. The present study posits two attitudinal variables of job satisfaction and job involvement as consequences of psychological climate. Data were collected from 357 mangers/executives and subject to multivariate data analysis procedures. The results established that psychological climate is a statistically significant predictor of positive levels of job satisfaction and job involvement. The theoretical and practical connotations of the study and possible areas of future research are also discussed.

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