INFLUENCIA DEL LIDERAZGO EN EL CLIMA ORGANIZACIONAL DEL PERSONAL DE GAD DE LA PROVINCIA DEL CAÑAR

Abstract

Nowadays, it is indispensable in organizations to have a leadership that motivates their employees to operate in an organizational climate conducive to meet the requirements that lead to the achievement of their goals. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the level of influence of the leadership in the organizational climate of the employees of the Autonomous Government Decentralized (GAD) of the Cañar Province. Its approach is non - experimental quantitative, with an explanatory - propositional scope and its type of reasoning is deductive. The basic concepts of leadership, their approaches, organizational climate and the relationship between these two variables will be theoretically based. The present study was carried out in June 2017 through the application of face-to-face surveys to 182 officials; for this the instruments were used: Multifactorial Leadership Questionnaire of Bass and Avolio and Questionnaire to measure climate of J.P Ortega. The results obtained identify the styles of leadership and work climate existing in the provincial GAD. Sixty-six percent of the respondents stated that in the idealized dimension of transactional leadership, the leader always exercised his or her abilities by encouraging considerable follow-up on his followers to achieve optimal levels of performance. In the case of the organizational climate the most outstanding dimension was structure and support mechanisms of the management; where 77% of the respondents expressed feeling comfortable working in the institution. It is concluded that leadership influences in a positive way the organizational climate of the staff of the institution.