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climate. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between
personal factors and organizational climate in Pakistani industrial organizations. The
personal factors include age, length of service, education and job category. Therefore, the
study postulated the following research question:
What is relationship between personal factors (age, length of service, education, and job
category) and the organizational climate in Pakistani industrial organizations?
In order to address the above mentioned research question, the study presented a detailed
literature on the relationship between personal factors and organizational climate. This
review led to the development of three main hypotheses that were tested in this study.
The study used several statistical tests such as descriptive statistics, correlations and
regression analysis, to test the hypotheses.
6.1 Personal Factors and Organizational climate
The personal factors used in this study include age, length of service, education and job
category. The findings of the study showed that age and length of service have a
significant relationship with Organizational climate while no relationship was found
between education, job category and organizational climate. The following discussion
explains the possible reasons for the relationship between these variables and
organizational climate.
6.1.1 Age
Age was significantly correlated with overall organizational climate. This study is
consistent to the previous studies, such as Forte & Hansvick, 1999; Sveiby & Simons,
2002; Karen, Clint & Sherry, 2002). Though very few researches revealed the same
relationship between age and organizational climate variables but it is quite evident that
older employees express more moderate opinions about actions in organizations as
compare to the young workers.
Age showed, in Table 7, significantly associated with the Organizational climate
dimensions, freedom [r= .12, p