Relação entre clima organizacional e desempenho financeiro de empresas : um estudo no contexto brasileiro

Abstract

The relation between the organizational climate and the financial performance has been studied by several researchers who have emphasized that there could be reciprocity between the organizational climate and the enterprise performance. The purpose of this study is to investigate if the Brazilian enterprises that reached the highest rates of work satisfaction, demonstrated by theirs employees and expressed by their organizational climate, have also demonstrated the best indicators of financial performance. In order to accomplish this purpose, a research was made about the financial indicators of the enterprises that have presented the highest indices of organizational climate in the years of 2004, 2005 and 2006 and were classified by the Guide VOCÊ S/A - EXAME, published by EDITORA ABRIL. This research has only included the enterprises that are mentioned in that magazine list as well as in the list "Melhores e Maiores da Revista EXAME", which present the best and the biggest Brazilian enterprises, according to this magazine. In this context, forty enterprises were selected from which twenty were classified by the Guide VOCÊ S/A-EXAME, being among the first ten enterprises in the years 2004, 2005 e 2006 and they were compared with twenty other enterprises which were part of that guide. An study was done to determine if the enterprise participation in that magazine list, showing a high value index would result in a better financial performance. For this purpose, the following indicators were used: Rate of Return on Total Assets, Return on Equity, Net Margin, Operating Margin, Sales Growth, Asset Turnover and the Active Sales per Employee. These index values were obtained from the database " Melhores e Maiores da FIPECAFI". The statistical tests of Shapiro Wilks were applied firstly. Afterwards, the Mann-Whitney´s or the test "t" and the multidimensional scaling were also applied. Then it was concluded that there was no strong relationship between the organizational climate and the financial performance