An Assessment and Comparison of Organizational Climate and Occupational Stress among Personnel s of Banaras Hindu University

Abstract

Organizational climate is defined as a set of perceived attributes of an organization newlineand its subsystems as reflected in the way an organization deals with its members, groups and newlineissues. Rena tom (1968) defined organizational climate as a relatively enduring quality of the newlineinternal environment that is experienced by the members, influences their behavior and can newlinebe described in terms of values of a particular set of characteristics of the organ is action newlineThe occupational Stress Index purports to measure the extent of stress which newlineemployee s perceive arising from various constituent and conditions of their job. However, newlinestress researchers have developed the scales which measure the stress arising exclusively newlinefrom job roles (Rizzo et al 1970; Pareek 1981). newline