Organizational climate incidence and labor attitudes in the prosocial behavior of guayas (Ecuador) health-care professionals

Abstract

The present work shows how the dimensions organizational climate and labor attitudes impact in the prosocial behavior. Three questionnaires were chosen, properly authorized by their respective authors, all structured in a 5 levels Likert scale. The survey method was applied to a random sample of 583 hospitals workers. An exploratory analysis of factors was done, the incidence was modeled by means of structural equations and the relationships were confirmed by means of the single mediator's analysis. The results of a first order analysis indicate that the organizational climate impacts directly on the mediator labor attitudes and this variable has a direct impact on prosocial behavior. It is also determined that an indirect effect of the organizational climate exists on the prosocial behavior. The single mediator's analysis confirms that labor attitudes act as mediator of the relationship between the organizational climate and the prosocial behavior.