Organizational Culture and Its Relationship with the Organizational Climate in the Youth Higher Council from the Perspective of Council Staff

Abstract

There is some conceptual confusion between the concepts of organizational culture and organizational climate. There are those who believe that the organizational culture is an alternative for the organizational climate or vice versa, but there is a clear difference between the two concepts in which one of them cannot be an alternative to another one where the organizational climate is a reflection of the characteristics for  organization internal environment through concepts adapted by an individual about the realities of the organization while organizational culture are all beliefs, expectations, values​,​  behavior and norms that contribute in achieving the organization goals. The strong relationship between the two concepts contributes to the push the organization toward success. Jordan Higher Council of Youth is one of the official governmental institutions which deal with the largest category in the community of Jordan who are the youth. The Council supervises on many of youth organizations distributed all over Jordan. The  Higher Council of Youth was established in 2001 by a Royal Decree to deal with youth files in Jordan, while the International Olympic Committee deals with Jordanian sports file (Sarhan, 2003).So, the Council is considered as one of the largest official institutions with extensive organizational climate and wide organizational culture.

Depending on the researcher experience of work at the Council since a long time, this idea has grown toward organizational climate assessment in the Council for various components such as leadership style,  decision-making, organizational structure, nature of motivations and using technology processes on one hand and on the other hand for the assessment of organizational culture in the Council through the assessment of values, beliefs, customs and organizational norms, identifying the impact of the organizational climate in the organizational culture, the realization of Council staff attitudes towards organizational climate and culture, the seek for supporting recommendations of  successful links between the organizational environment and organizational culture, and trying to address some of weaknesses that make this relationship limited.