Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention

Sule Alan, Gozde Corekcioglu and Matthias Sutter

No 16532, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We evaluate the impact of a program aiming at improving the workplace climate in corporations. The program is implemented via a clustered randomized design and evaluated with respect to the prevalence of support networks, antisocial behavior, perceived relational atmosphere, and turnover rate. We find that professionals in treated corporations are less inclined to engage in toxic competition, exhibit higher reciprocity toward each other, report higher workplace satisfaction and a more collegial atmosphere. Treated firms have fewer socially isolated individuals and a lower employee turnover. The program's success in improving leader-subordinate relationships emerges as a likely mechanism to explain these results.

Keywords: Workplace climate; Relational dynamics; Leadership quality; Rcts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 M14 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP16532 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
Journal Article: Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention (2023)
Working Paper: Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention (2022)
Working Paper: Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention (2021)
Working Paper: Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention (2021)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:16532

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP16532

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().