HRM versus QCA: what affects the organizational climate in sports organizations?

Abstract

The Organizational Climate (OC) provides valuable information about the work environment perceived by employees, directly influencing job satisfaction, organizational commitment and performance. The main objective of this study was to analyse the influence of socio-demographic variables (age, sex and educational level), and working conditions (employment situation, seniority and sector) on the Organizational Climate in sports organizations by comparing linear relationship models: hierarchical regression model (HRM) and models based on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). The sample was made up of 192 professionals from 77 public and private sports organizations in Spain and scale used was PSCLADE. The results of the regression model suggest that education level and employment situation predict Total Organizational Climate and only educational level predicts Single Item Organizational Climate. The results of QCA models provide greater predictive values. In general terms the most prominent variable in both high and low levels of OC is educational level.

Keywords:

• Organizational climate
• sports organizations
• sociodemographic variables
• work conditions
• hierarchical regression models
• qualitative comparative analysis

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.