Employees' Perceptions of Work Environment in Certain Setting of Hyderabad City

The study was designed to examine differences in employees' perceptions of social climate dimensions in two different work settings. The Urdu version of the Work Environment Scale developed by Rudolf Moos (I986) was administered on 45 employees of Aga Khan Maternal and Child Care Center, and Zeal-Pak Cement Factory and Others in Hyderabad City. The results indicated that the employees of the Health Care group perceived greater Involvement, Task Orientation, Clarity, Control, and Innovation than the employees of the Business and Industry group did on the Work Environment Scale. The mean differences between the two groups on these scales were found to be highly significant. The results are discussed in terms of the differences in social climate as it exists in the two work settings.