In an effort to assess the relationship between managerial behav
ior and subordinate perceptions of organizational climate, subor
dinates of three samples of high-technology managers were
administered questionnaires concerning the behavior of their im
mediate manager and their perceptions of the organization's cli
mate. Results across the three samples suggest that within given
work settings managerial behavior can be shown to relate signifi
cantly to organizational indices without the concern for more com
plex contingency variables.
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