Indian Journal of Industrial Relations: Economics & Social Dev.

Arvind Kaur Birdie ¹, Madhu Jain ²

Affiliations
1 IIMT School of Management (Vedatya), Gurgaon, IN
2 Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, IN

Abstract

Globalization and technology has revolutionized the workforce and as a result virtual work emerged as an option for upcoming service organizations. The increased use of virtual work has not been accompanied by concomitant research efforts to understand better the socio-psychological contributors to effective virtual work environment. The present paper tries to explore the relationship between perceived organizational climate and job involvement in virtual workers. The sample consisted of 100 virtual workers working in hospitality in India. A co-relational research design was employed. Data were collected through using questionnaire method. The results revealed that perceived organizational climate is not significantly related to job involvement and virtual work has revolutionized behavior within organizations.

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Arvind Kaur Birdie ¹, Madhu Jain ²

Affiliations
1 IIMT School of Management, Gurgaon, IN
2 Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, IN

Abstract

Growing number of organizations explored the virtual environment as a means to achieve increased responsiveness. Use of virtual teams appears to be on the rise. The present study explores the relationship between perceived organizational climate and interpersonal trust among virtual workers. The sample consisted of 100 virtual workers working in different organizations in Delhi-NCR. A correlation based research design was employed. The correlation between overall perceived organization climate and trust has been found insignificant among virtual workers. However, perceived organizational climate’s domains like performance standards, conflict resolution, reward system and identity problems are found positively correlated with trust in an organization.

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