IRJMSH Volume 5 Issue 2 [Year 2014] online ISSN 2277 – 9809 International Research Journal of Management Sociology & Humanity Page 83 http:www.irjmsh.com Comparison of Perceived Organizational Climate in Private and Public Undertakings *Amjad Ali & **Bhaswati Patnaik *Post Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela, Odisha. Email: amjad1737@gmail.com **Associate Professor & Head, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela, Odisha. Email: bhaswati.patnaik@gmail.com Organizational climate is a topic of increasing interest in the area of organizational behaviour and management. It is generally defined as a psychological state strongly affected by organizational conditions, such as systems, structure and managerial behaviour. Organizational Climate is a perception of how things are in the organizational environment, which is composed of a variety of elements or dimensions. Managers are the most important assets of the organization as they have to interact with their subordinates, colleagues, top managements, customers and people at large. So, their major portion of time is utilized in working with different kinds of people in diverse climate and culture. The present research intends to understand the perception of Organizational climate among managers of private and public undertakings. The study was carried out in different private and public organizations located in Delhi. Data were collected from 100 managers (50 managers from private and 50 from public undertakings). Organizational Climate Scale developed by Pathe, Chaudhari and Dhar (2001) was administered to explore the general opinion of working managers of different organizations. Analysis of the data was done using t-test. Results revealed significant difference between managers of private and public undertakings on Organizational Climate dimensions. The findings imply that the organizations in both the sectors need to understand and manage Organizational Climate and provide them with suitable physical climate and interpersonal culture to enhance overall Organizational Climate so that their level of performance in the organization could be enhanced. Results are explained in the light of present scenario in existing private and public undertakings. INTRODUCTION Organizational climate is an attempt to understand the processes by which organizational structure and managerial strategies, affect the motivation and attitudes of individual employees. It is suggested that climate occupies an intermediate position in such processes. Theoretically, it provides a linkage between the organizational and individual levels of analysis (Tagiuri and Litwin, 1968; Pheysey, Payne and Pugh, 1971). At the organizational level of analysis, results showed that structural and contextual variables were regularly related to the average perceptions