DIAGNOSIS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE PREFERENCES OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIANS: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF SÃO PAULO AND ANTIOQUIA

Abstract

This article reports the results of a study of the organizational climate preferred by Brazilian a Colombian librarian in universities in Sao Paulo and Antioquia. This survey forms part of a broader study on work motivation and organizational climate presented to obtain the degree of Doctor of Communication Sciences in the University of Sao Paulo. The objective of this research project was not to determine the current climate in librarians were presented with different elements that comprise organizational climate, with the request that they indicate those elements that they consider indispensable or of major or minor importance, as well as those elements toward which they were indifferent or considered of little importance. The instrument used for this inquiry was a questionnaire that contained 35 situations related to the components of the climates investigated: objectives, structure, leadership, work relations, compensation, support mechanism, propensity to change.