The role of the emotional climate in learning organisations

• Published in: The learning organization Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 99 - 103
• Main Author: Tran, Véronique
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford MCB UP Ltd 01.01.1998; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Alliances; Annual Reports; Competitive advantage; Corporate culture; Creativity; Decision making; Emotional Intelligence; Emotional Response; Emotions; Fear; Flexibility; Goal Orientation; Group Dynamics; Human Relations; Interpersonal Relationship; Job Satisfaction; Labor; Learning Organizations; Manufacturing; Organizational Climate; Organizational Culture; Organizational Development; Organizational learning; Participative Decision Making; Resistance (Psychology); Semantics; Social Change; Student Attitudes; Studies; Trust (Psychology); United Kingdom > UK; Performance; Decision making; Flexibility; Creativity; Learning organizations
• ISSN: 0969-6474; 1758-7905
• DOI: 10.1108/09696479810212060

This paper describes the research directed at the study of the role of the emotional climate in learning organisations. It becomes increasingly obvious that an emotional climate pervades every level of human interaction inside organisations. Emotionality and rationality coexist in organisational settings. This research examines how an emotional climate arises, how it evolves, how it is maintained, and what are the consequences of a given type of emotional climate. We suggest that it may deeply affect organisational dynamics such as idea-generation, creativity, adaptability to change, and facilitation or inhibition of learning processes. Hence, it ultimately influences performance. We are in the process of developing an instrument to measure the emotional climate in a learning organisation.