"Collective climate" in hospital settings: a tool to better target work climate improvement strategies.
Work climate continuous improvement programs are implemented to create and maintain healthy workplaces. This article presents evidence-based supports for the use of "collective climates" as a tool to better target improvement strategies, taking into account that work climate is not only a key for attraction and retention issues but also for performance and quality issues. Our study in 3 different Canadian hospitals shed light on 6 typical configurations that involve specific organizational development strategies.
Paquet
Maxime
M
Research and Intervention Centre for Healthy Workplaces, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Gagnon
Serge
S
D002170:Canada; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017132:Workplace