Leadership Behavior and Organizational
Climate: An Empirical Study in a Non-profit
Leadership Behavior and Organizational
Climate: An Empirical Study in a Non-profit
Organization
Joseph B. Holloway
Regent University
The primary purpose of this research paper is to present an empirical study framed by
the theory that task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership behaviors are positively
related to the employees’ perceptions of organizational climate. The study examined the
following research question: Are task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership
behaviors related to different dimensions of organizational climate in a non-profit
organization? The study introduces the theoretical perspective and examines the
relevant literature that supports the significance of leadership behavior and
organizational climate. The methodology for collecting the data was through the
combination of two quantitative instruments into a web-based questionnaire consisting
of 79 questions aimed at determining the relative contribution that the independent
variables (task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership behaviors) have on the
dependent variables (the different dimensions of organizational climate). The following
control variables were collected from the sample and were statistically controlled in the
data analysis: age, educational level, gender, job rank, and job tenure. The results of the
study show that certain leadership behaviors do have an impact on a few dimensions of
organizational climate.