ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE AS AN IMAGE OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE (IN THE LIGHT OF RESEARCH ON POLISH ORGANISATIONS)

The article is an attempt to scientifically represent the specificity of organisational culture of Polish companies, but also the differences within the scope of developing the attributes of cultures of state and market organisations, with the use of empirical evaluation of attitudes of their members in relation to the organisational climate prevailing in them. Organisational cli-mate is understood here as visualisation (demonstration, materialisation) of ,,subconscious”, profound and hidden from the organisation’s environment (but also in a way from itself) val-ues, norms and artefacts. The phenomenon of organisational climate is so interesting from a scientific point of view, that it may be subject to empirical verification in the workers’ atti-tudes due to its volitional (the members of an organisation have a will), cognitive (the mem-bers have an intellectual ability), emotional (the members are willing) and psychomotor (the members have technical competence) nature. It is also relatively easily attainable source of data, which raises its practical value and lowers the cost of research. Organisational climate is – according to the authors’ analytical convention – a logical, intuitive, generalised and extrap-olated form of perceiving and expression by the community (an individual, group, and team) of an organisation – in the form of feelings, opinions as well as the behaviour of its partici-pants – of the culture which characterises it. The purpose of the research was thus a diacritical analysis of organisational climate of bureaucracy and adhocracy (according to the authors, or-ganisational climate is a synthetic and integral equivalent of organisational culture, considered synonymously as part of the adopted paradigm), developing in Polish organisations.

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