Traditional research on molar climate focuses on the perception of total organizational environment too much and has an excessively wide measurement range,so it is easy to lead to the confusion with other variables in the study and make scholars have different ideas on the relationship between molar climate and the outcomes variables. While focused climate pays more attention to a specific phenomenon or behavior and its measurement is prone to describe special strategic goals of organizations rather than the affect of individuals,it can be distinguished effectively from other variables and can better predict the organizational outcomes. Focused climate has become the hotspot and development direction in the area of organizational climate research,and especially in recent years,the research on the interaction of different focused climates and the combined role of different focused climates in the outcome variables has attracted more and more attention from scholars. But it is short of a systematic review of the empirical research of focused climates. Accordingly,this paper reviews the concept,classification and measurement of focused climates,systematically sorts out the antecedents,outcomes & mediating and moderating effects of focused climates,and constructs an empirical research model of focused climates according to the different role of process-based and strategy-based climates. Future research can place emphasis on the definition of process-based and strategy-based climates,the interaction of different focused climates and the combined role of different focused climates in the outcome variables,and the moderating role of climate strength.
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Foreign Economics & Management
LiZengquan, Editor-in-Chief
ZhengChunrong, Vice Executive Editor-in-Chief
YinHuifang HeXiaogang LiuJianguo, Vice Editor-in-Chief
Focused Climate: A Literature Review and Prospects
Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 38, Issue 09, pp. 64 - 79 (2016) DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.2016.09.005
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Zhang Xiaoyi, Wang Yunfeng, Yu Wei. Focused Climate: A Literature Review and Prospects[J]. Foreign Economics & Management, 2016, 38(9): 64–79.
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