Abstract
This study investigated the impact of perceived organizational climate on non-managerial job satisfaction of 118 non-managerial personnel who completed a three-part questionnaire which solicited demographic information and the identification of and preferences for specific characteristics of organizational climate. The surveyed personnel had a strong preference for open as opposed to closed characteristics of organizational climate; to the degree that they claimed to be familiar with the behavioral science theories of management there is an increasingly favorable disposition toward the theories; and among those Ss who perceived closed characteristics, there was a marked desire for a diminution of the impact of those characteristics. Similar results were obtained, by the authors, in a previous study of organizational climate and managerial job satisfaction.