The role of the emotional climate in learning organisations

Tran, Véronique

doi:10.1108/09696479810212060

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“…Therefore a microclimate is founded and developed by the way people relate to each other and could therefore be seen as arising between people. Over time and continuous interaction, the interactors begin to share ways of perceiving and expressing emotions, which explains why a microclimate can be experienced as a stable quality within ecological niches, and why we can talk about an environment's mood (Jacobsen, 2001) or emotional climate (Tran, 1998). Even though the microclimate is dialogically founded it does not mean that every employee in a microclimate contributes equally to the shaping of it.…”

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Doctoral Education in a Successful Ecological Niche: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study of the Relationship between the Microclimate and Doctoral Students’ Learning to Become a Researcher

Christensen

Lund

2014

IJHE

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Scholarly communities are dependent on and often measured by their ability to attract and develop doctoral students. Recent literature suggests that most scholarly communities entail ecological niches in which the doctoral students learn the codes and practices of research. In this article, we explore the microclimate in an ecological niche of doctoral education. Based on a theoretical definition of microclimate as the emotional atmosphere that ties group members together and affects their actions, we conducted a case study that aimed to describe the key features of the microclimate in a successful ecological niche of doctoral education, and the ways in which the microclimate support the doctoral students' learning. The methods we applied in the case study were based on short-term ethnographic fieldwork. The results reveal four key features of the emotional atmosphere in the microclimate: mutual appreciation, balancing seriousness and humor, desire, and ambition. These features constitute the shared emotionality that sets the scene for the microclimate, and affects and guides the doctoral students' daily practices. Furthermore, the results indicate that the microclimate supports successful doctoral education because it: 1) fleshes out the professional attitude that is necessary for becoming a successful researcher in the department, 2) shapes and adapts the doctoral students' desires to grasp and identify with the department's practices, and 3) provides the doctoral students with access to flow zones that drive their education. These results may suggest practical implications for fostering and cultivating successful ecological niches in medical education at doctoral level.

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Section: Emotions Arise Between Interactorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doctoral Education in a Successful Ecological Niche: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study of the Relationship between the Microclimate and Doctoral Students’ Learning to Become a Researcher

Christensen

Lund

2014

IJHE

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“…When this commitment to training and development is 20 viewed in tandem with the FMs' commitment to improvement and to increasing staff morale (Themes 5 and 6: Maximising Contribution), we begin to see evidence of the Learning Organisation (e.g. Tran 1983). …”

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Excellent patient environments within acute NHS trusts

Macdonald

Price

Askham

2009

Journal of Facilities Management

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PurposeThe research investigated the possible common factors in 15 Acute Hospital Trusts in the UK that achieved excellent scores at all their sites in three rounds of national Patient Environment audits. Design/methodology/approachA desk based study tested for external factors, organisational commonalities or particular contractual arrangments which the sample might have in common. An ethnographic study examined the behaviours exhibited by 22 managers in 6 of the trusts. FindingsNo external, organisational or contractual commonalities could be identified. The managers concerned all demonstrated 'theory Y' leadership behaviours and in partiular were oberved to be managing overlapping networks of conversations. Practical implicationsThe research reveals a behavioural / cultural explanation for the creation of excellent environments. Such an emphasis is not common in FM literature. There is an important question as to why such behaviour is not more common within FM in general or health FM in particular. Originality/valueThe authors are not aware of other studies suggesting a distinctive FM leadership contribution to excellent Patient Environments.

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“…For Tran (1998), the emotional climate of organization comprised the values, goals, beliefs, and attitudes in the organization. She noted that emotional climate in an organization refers to understanding the behavior of an organization as well as employees' achievements.…”

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Measuring the Emotional Climate of an Organization

Yurtsever

Rivera

2010

Percept Mot Skills

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The importance of emotional climate in the organizational climate literature has gained interest. However, few studies have concentrated on adequately measuring the emotional climate of organizations. In this study, a reliable and valid scale was developed to measure the most important aspects of emotional climate in different organizations. This study presents evidence of reliability and validity for 28 items constructed to measure emotional climate in an organization in four separate studies. The data were obtained from working people from four different organizations by self-administered questionnaires. The findings indicate that three factors--Trust, Hope, and Security--were factors of the 28-item scale. Validation data also included correlations with duration of employment. The other method of assessing criterion validity was by comparing mean scores in organizations with differing productivity; results indicated that the organization with more productive members had a significantly higher mean score on emotional climate and its subscales. The generalizability of the results to private businesses also was assessed.

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The role of the emotional climate in learning organisations

Cited by 63 publications

References 5 publications

Doctoral Education in a Successful Ecological Niche: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study of the Relationship between the Microclimate and Doctoral Students’ Learning to Become a Researcher

Doctoral Education in a Successful Ecological Niche: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study of the Relationship between the Microclimate and Doctoral Students’ Learning to Become a Researcher

Excellent patient environments within acute NHS trusts

Measuring the Emotional Climate of an Organization

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