CHAPTER 6

Organizational Atmosphere

Organizational atmosphere has to do with the aura within the organization; that is, does the atmosphere enhance the comfort level of employees and other shareholders to be committed to want to work within the organization, that is, a supportive atmosphere, or does the atmosphere create a black and gloomy feeling that creates a dread to want to work with the organization, that is, a defensive atmosphere? There seems to be a global trend for empire building (and dismantling) and the power and control that go with it. Even with the present movements toward globalization and finding the least-cost labor, that is, downsizing (and upsizing and right sizing), restructuring, reengineering, and so on, with emphasis ...

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