Introduction:

There have been recent changes in Mexico City in terms of its status as an entity in the country, which can generate potential tension among the dependencies’ workers of the new Government. Thus, monitoring the organizational climate (OC) is relevant to know their behavior and adaptation.

Objective:

To measure the organizational climate in workers of General Hospital “La Villa” belonging to the Health Secretary in Mexico City.

Methods:

Observational, cross-sectional and descriptive study carried out during 2016. A total of 264 workers accepted to participate under letter of informed consent. Surveyors were trained; they applied a OA questionnaire which includes four dimensions: leadership, motivation, reciprocity and participation, with eighty Likert-type items. A statistical SPSS v.22 package was used, a t-Student test was carried out and variance analysis with a significance level of p < 0, 05.

Results:

The OC was valued by all the staff with medium levels tending to high levels, highlighting leadership and motivation as the best evaluated dimensions, followed by reciprocity and participation being the last. In the subcomponents of OA, information exchange, retribution, contribution acknowledgment and involvement in change were the main factors that tilted down the OA.

Conclusion:

In this study, leadership and motivation are related with a good level of organizational climate and can influence in the adaptation within the context of the new type of Government.

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