Organizational Climate and Culture Factors

Abstract

Nurses and others have expressed a great deal of interest in the potential for incorporating notions about organizational culture and climate in research and practice aiming to improve health care safety. In this review, definitions and measures of these terms are explored, the state of the research literature connecting culture and climate with safety is reviewed, and directions for future research and leadership practice are outlined.

The relationship between management safety commitment and patient safety culture

“…A patient safety culture has been considered to be a complex phenomenon that is not fully understood by hospital administrators and nursing professionals (Clarke 2006; Sammer et al. 2010).…”

Organizational Climate and Hospital Nurses' Caring Practices: A Mixed‐Methods Study

“…The present study was focused on structure in terms of organizational climate, a factor unique to each workplace (Gagnon, Paquet, Courcy, & Parker, 2009;Parker et al, 2003;Rousseau, 1988) in relation to processes of care. A related concept, nursing practice environment (Gershon et al, 2007;Warshawsky & Havens, 2011), refers to nurses' perspectives regarding a narrower subset of organizational elements believed to be key to nursing care quality (Clarke, 2006). Nursing practice environment factors overlap with components of organizational climate Parker et al, 2003;Rousseau, 1988), but the broader concept of organizational climate was deemed more suitable for testing the propositions in Duffy and Hoskins' (2003) model.…”

Translating Infection Control Guidelines Into Practice

“…Culture is typically discussed in terms of a deeply ingrained set of ideas and experiences that serve as a frame for actions and experiences in workplaces. It is possible to view culture as at least partially reflecting leadership decisions in organizations that over time result in the norms of the setting (Clarke, 2006). This notion of culture was another major theme in the participants’ accounts.…”