Investigação de correlações entre clima organizacional e rentabilidade: análise em empresas consideradas bons lugares para trabalhar

Abstract

The substantial increase in competition and investment opportunities, has made the attention of the business community and investors about the profit of the organizations take on unprecedented proportions, especially in the case of companies listed on stock exchanges. The investor, with an eye on its stock price, as well as the policy of distributing dividends, always tries to direct its capital to companies that have the best potential return. Grows, consequently, the pressure for results on the management and employees of these companies, pressure that can often bring backfire. Pugh and Hickson (2004) synthesized the thoughts of management theorists, who hold divergent views, even antagonistic, with regard to how best to lead teams aiming to optimize routines and perpetuation of the business, while income generation is mandatory. This study aims to analyze the relationship between organizational climate and profitability of companies, from the perspective of return on equity. Through exploratory analysis evaluated the financial performance of companies that have been chosen by their employees as good places to work in the period 1999 to 2008, based on the ranking prepared by the Great Place to Work Institute, comparing these results with companies that were not listed as good places to work in the same period. Supported in studies of management theorists, who testified in organizational behavior, as well as theses, dissertations and articles that include organizational climate, the study aims to contribute to the academic and business communities with an analysis of results over ten years. In the overall analysis, were isolated from the profits of companies in three different economic sectors: banks, car pieces industry and power distribution. Performed analysis and tabulations of results was not identified, statistically, the correlation between organizational climate and profit of companies and was not statistical differences between mean results for corporations with good organizational climate and their competitors. If, statistically, the results of the companies considered good places to work were similar to the results of the companies that were not identified as good places to work, financially the overall profit shows that the first achieved return on equity 116.83% higher than companies whose names were not on the ranking of the best places to work, over the ten-year period.