History of the Organisation Climate Survey

The Research Origins
The research origins of the questionnaire are derived from the Harvard School of Social Psychology, where two researchers, Stringer and Litwin, first designed a basic instrument in conjunction with Dr David McClelland in 1967 and coined the term ‘organisation climate‘. (Litwin G.H. and R.A. Stringer Jr, Motivation and Organizational Climate. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1968.) The concept underlying the original design was the investigation of the motivational impact of management behaviour on employees. The original instrument measured six factors, including: