EL CLIMA ORGANIZACIONAL DEL DISTRITO CEIBOS DE LA ZONA 8 DE LA POLICÍA NACIONAL

Abstract

In recent times, the organizational climate has become an object of study in all public or private organizations around the world. Organizational climate studies are responsible for measuring the perception of members towards the organization with respect to processes and procedures, the relationships between people and the physical environment, which impact on the behavior of people in a positive or negative. The objective of this research was to evaluate and compare the organizational climate of each of the three circuits: Ceibos, Puerto Hondo and Chongón, which make up the Distrito Ceibos de la Zona 8 of the National Police. The present investigation is applied, descriptive and transversal. It has a quantitative approach. The sample was made up of 152 policemen. The data collection instrument that was selected was the organizational climate questionnaire by Litwin and Stringer (1968) in a version adapted by Echezuria and Rivas (2001). The results of the organizational climate study were the following: The factors with the highest valuation in each of the three circuits were: in the Chongón circuit, structure and challenges; in the Puerto Hondo circuit, challenges and standards; and in the Ceibos circuit, challenges and standards. The factors with lower valuation in each of the three circuits were: in the Chongón circuit, responsibility and cooperation; in the Puerto Hondo circuit, responsibility and reward; and in the Ceibos circuit, cooperation and identity. The challenge factor is the one that most prevails as the best valued in the 3 circuits. The factors of responsibility and cooperation are those that prevail the most as the least valued in the 3 circuits.