The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between organizational climate and organizational effectiveness in Korean professional baseball organization. More specifically, the study aims: (1) to analyze the difference of organizational ...
The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between organizational climate and organizational effectiveness in Korean professional baseball organization. More specifically, the study aims: (1) to analyze the difference of organizational climate between upper-ranking teams and lower-ranking teams; (2) to analyze the relationship between organizational climate and member satisfaction; (3) to analyze the relationship between organizational climate and team win/loss ratio. In order to achieve the aforementioned purposes, the relevant. data were gathered from 250 professional baseball players who played at the first division. And only 217 cases were analysed. The questionnaire was composed of 32 questions including 8 sociodemographic variables, 21 independent variables, and 3 dependent variables. The data dealing with win/loss ratio were collected from the `95 Official Baseball Guide. And the questionnaire, developed by William and Hacker(1982), was used to measure the member satisfaction variables. The subfactors of member satisfaction are play satisfaction(PL), position satisfaction(PO), and belonging satisfaction(BE). The reliability of the member satisfaction variable is.80. The statistical technique; used for the analysis of this study were T-Test, Pearson`s correlation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results of the study are as follows: First, there is a significant difference between upper-ranking teams and lower-ranking teams in the organizational climate. Second, the regression analysis on the effects of overall member satisfaction confirmed that stratification` is the most important determinant of overall merber satisfaction followed by `intimacy`. Third, the most important predictor of team win/loss ratio was `potency` followed by stratification`. Potency is the degree to which a group has primary significance for its members. It is reflected by the kind of needs which a group is satisfying or has the potentiality of satisfying, by the extent of readjustment which would be required of members should the group fail, and by the degree to which a group has meaning to the members with reference to their central values.