Relationships between Organizational Climate and Organizational Commitment: A Literature Review in the Asian Context

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue V, May 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186

Relationships between Organizational Climate and Organizational Commitment: A Literature Review in the Asian Context

Gesca Sonarita¹, Sudjarwo Sudjarwo¹, Hasan Hariri¹

¹Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Lampung, Indonesia

Abstract— The importance of organizational climate in an organization attracts researchers to investigate it, and this paper is to examine the relationship between organizational climate and organizational commitment. There are a few articles about review of the relationship between organizational climate and organizational commitment, especially in Asia context, that can be found. The purpose of this review is to examine the relationship between organizational climate and organizational commitment in Asia. Based on the results of literature review from various countries and organizations in Asia, we found that organizational climate and organizational commitment has a positive and significant relationship.

Keywords—-organizational climate, organizational commitment, Asian context, relationship, literature review

I. INTRODUCTION

The ability of an organization to start and achieve its goals is a function of its ability to attract, hire, satisfy human resources, maintain, and improve their competence [1]. Each organization has to concern about human resources and it is important to increase their commitment by make any changes within the organization [30]. A positive organizational climate is said to be one important variable that will encourage employee’s effort and commitment [23]. Organizational climate arises in organizations through a social information process that concerns to employees attach to the policies, practices, and procedures they experience and the behaviors they observe being rewarded, supported, and expected [31].The organizational climate providing human resources good working environment and condition. Help them reach their job satisfaction, so that this can increase commitment among the staff to the organization [13].

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