Relationship, Motivation and Organizational Climate: A Case of Sustainability

Abstract

The aim of this study is to check the relationship between Organizational climate and employee's motivation in Sialkot manufacturing industry. Organizational climate refers to a set of measureable properties of the work environment that are supposed by the people who live and work in it, and influence their behavior and motivation (Abbas et al., 2010). Motivation is the processes that account for an individual's intensity, direction and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal (Robbins, 2009). Organizational climate is directly related with motivation level and performance of the employees in any organization (Rice, 1982). This study is derived from literature that provides the basis for the study. The study reports that for the data analyses, 130 respondents were used from the manufacturing industry consists of 22 industries of Sialkot and the data was collected by using the questionnaire as a research tool by convenience sampling. The correlation analysis was used to test the hypotheses and after analysis of data, it is concluded that organizational climate has significant relationship with employee's motivation. It is also concluded that the organizational climate dimensions; Innovation, Rewards, Empowerment, Training & Development and communication have positive relationship with employee's motivation and the conflict has negative relationship with employee's motivation.