MODELING ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES ACROSS HIERARCHICAL LEVELS - CLIMATE, LEADERSHIP, AND GROUP-PROCESS IN WORK GROUPS

Perceptions of organizational climate, leadership, and group processes were aggregated within hierarchically nested work groups. Relationshi ps across hierarchical boundaries were examined for two samples at dif ferent hierarchical levels in a military organization. Perceptions of climate were positively related across levels in both samples. There w as evidence that the pattern of relationship among the other construct s was different in the two samples. The results have implications for the process which organizational interventions can be expected to flow through hierarchical levels of an organization. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.