The role of the emotional climate in learning organisations

Abstract

This paper describes the research directed at the study of the role of the emotional climate in learning organisations. It becomes increasingly obvious that an emotional climate pervades every level of human interaction inside organisations. Emotionality and rationality coexist in organisational settings. This research examines how an emotional climate arises, how it evolves, how it is maintained, and what are the consequences of a given type of emotional climate. We suggest that it may deeply affect organisational dynamics such as idea‐generation, creativity, adaptability to change, and facilitation or inhibition of learning processes. Hence, it ultimately influences performance. We are in the process of developing an instrument to measure the emotional climate in a learning organisation.

Citation

Tran, V. (1998), "The role of the emotional climate in learning organisations", The Learning Organization, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 99-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/09696479810212060