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What is relationship between personal factors (age, length of service, education, and job
category) and the organizational climate in Pakistani industrial organizations?
This study, however, will also attempt to determine how individual personal factors (Age,
Education level, job ranks and Tenure) influence the perceptions of organizational
climate.
3.1 Research Hypotheses:
With the above research question, the following hypotheses have been formulated:
H1: There is no relationship between personal factors and organizational climate in
the Pakistani industrial organizations
H2: There is no relationship between personal factors and organizational climate
dimensions in the Pakistani industrial organizations
H3: There is no influence of personal factors (Age, Educational level, Job ranks and
Tenure) on organizational climate in the Pakistani industrial organizations
4. Methodology
The present study is a relationship based research in that it attempts to establish a
correlation between personal factors (such as Age, Job ranks, Length of service,
qualification and university Status) and organizational climate in Pakistani industrial
organizations.
4.1.1 Instrument of the study
The data was collected using a structured questionnaire. A two part questionnaire was
administered, of which the first section relates to personal factors (Age, Education level,
Job ranks and Tenure), the second section contains the Situational Outlook questionnaire
(SOQ). The SOQ examines several aspects of the work environment commonly referred
to as ‗organizational climate‘. The SOQ helps to study the organization in view of
current work environment and how it supports or limits the release and productive use of
creativity, innovation and change.
4.1.2 Reliability of construct
[Table 1 Here]
The SOQ provides four alternative responses (0 = not at all applicable, 1 = applicable to
some extent, 2 = fairly applicable, and 3 = applicable to a high extent). In this study the
internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha) of SOQ is 0.840.
4.2 Sample Size
The population of the study was constituted of the employees of the knitwear sector. Of
the 500 questionnaires distributed to the 100 knitwear organizations located in Lahore
and Faisalabad, Pakistan, 415 questionnaires were returned. 62 questionnaires were
incomplete and could not be used; this gives a total of 353 usable responses. The
response rate is thus approximately 70%.
4.3 Limitation of the study
The potential limitation of this study includes the scope of the research. This study aims
to explore the relationship between personal factors and organizational climate. Future
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