Influence of Organizational Climate on Thriving among Police Officers in the Raymond Mhlaba Municipality, Eastern Cape

Organisational climate is the common view and meaning that employees attribute to the practices,
procedures, and policies they experience and observe in the workplace. A positive organisational
climate of the police workforce in South Africa which is healthy and satisfactory is an efficient
ingredient that stimulates learning, vitality, high performance and efficiency. These ultimately lead to
high workplace thriving among police officers. This study investigated how organizational climate
influence thriving among police officers in the Raymond Mhlaba local Municipality of South Africa. The
study followed a quantitative research design. Primary data was collected with the help of a selfadministered
questionnaire. A non-probability sampling (convenient sampling) methods was used to
select the respondents, where a sample size of 150 was selected from a sample frame of 245 police
officers. Data analysis was done through SPSS. Hypothesis testing was done using Pearson productmoment
correlation. Similarly, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Chi-square statistics were used to
test the association and differences between organization climate and thriving variables. The findings
revealed that organisational climate influences thriving among police officers in the Raymond Mhlaba
Municipality positively. This positive organizational climate indicated that there are positive practices
such as caring behaviour, supportive leadership, respect, individual growth, development and thriving
among police officers in the Eastern Cape Province of south Africa. Police policy makers in South
Africa should implement policies within the police service that promotes conducive and suitable
organizational climate in which police officers can perform their work effectively in order to promote
growth, development and acquiring of new skills which leads to thriving.