Assessing Performance: The Impact of Organizational Climates and Politics on Public Schools' Performance

Abstract

This study examines multiple organizational climates and their relationship with politics and performance in public organizations. We argue that four types of climates (participative, innovative, leadership and service) impact employees' performance and public service outcomes, and that perceptions of organizational politics mediate these relationships. A theoretical model is suggested and examined empirically in a field study of 2102 teachers from 108 public schools and three major districts in Israel. Standard regressions and hierarchical linear model statistics are used to examine several hypotheses about the relationship between climate, micro‐level performance and macro‐level performance. The findings, both micro‐ and macro‐level based, indicate that multiple climates in the school environment are positively related to teachers' satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviour. Furthermore, perceptions of politics and such micro‐level performance indicators are also related to school level achievements.

How Leadership and Public Service Motivation Enhance Innovative Behavior

“…The present data set was multilevel in nature, consisting of 281 employees nested within 59 departments. We analyzed the data on the basis of hierarchical linear modeling because employees within the same department may be more similar to one another than to employees working in a different government department (e.g., Vashdi, Vigoda‐Gadot, and Shlomi 2013). We used hierarchical linear modeling that utilized robust maximum likelihood estimation in Mplus 7.4 to test the hypotheses.…”

Team Conflict Mediates the Effects of Organizational Politics on Employee Performance: A Cross-Level Analysis in China

“…Darr and Johns (2004) examined the multi-level antecedents of political climate and found very high within-group agreement on perceptions of OP among employees in the same department. Finally, Vashdi et al (2012) found strong evidence of shared perceptions of political climate in a sample of Israeli teachers. Taken together, these studies reflect the emergence of a growing consensus that political climate exists at the team-level.…”

An Analysis of the Ethics Infrastructure and Ethical Climate in Slovenian Public Administration

“…Parker et al 2008;Fernández and Camacho 2015;OECD 1996). Despite various research related to the ethics climate and ethics infrastructure in the public sector, there is a lack of research trying to connect both of these elements (Vashdi et al 2013;Vigoda-Gadot and Kapun 2005;GarciaSanchez et al 2011;Bowman and Knox 2008). None of the research connects all elements of the ethics climate and infrastructure, so this is the main contribution of the presented research.…”

“…Th ere is also research on connecting ethical climates with public-organisation performance (Vashdi et al 2013) and ethical climates and politics (Vigoda-Gadot and Kapun 2005). Nevertheless, research concerned with the infl uence of ethics infrastructures on ethical climates in public administration are rare, whilst in the private sector, we fi nd several conclusions and results from a greater amount of research.…”

“…Babin et al 2000;Moon and Choi 2014) and decisions in companies (Loe et al 2000;O'Fallon andButterfi eld 2005, Belak et al 2014). Th ere is less research that focuses on the evaluation of the ethics climate in the public sector (Ashkanasy et al 2000;Bowman and Knox 2008;Vashdi et al 2013;Raile 2013). When it comes to the public sector, ethics infrastructure is more oft en mentioned in literature (e.g.…”