Role Perceptions, Organizational Climate, and Satisfaction in Newly Created Organizational Subunits.

The relationships between perceptions of organization climate, role conflict, role ambiguity, and satisfaction were examined for a sample of faculty personnel in a southwestern university. Analyses included zero-order and partial correlations between role perceptions and satisfaction, using climate dimensions as control variables. Results indicated that climate has a stronger collective impact on the role conflict-satisfaction relationship than on the role ambiguity-satisfaction relationship. Results also indicated that role ambiguity has more impact in determining climate-role perception relationships than does role conflict.