Differences in the Working Climate of Employees Hired by Outsourcing and Employees Hired Directly: Empirical Evidence of the Northern Zone in Colombia

There are few empirical studies on working climate in Colombia that show differences among groups of workers who work under different types of labor contracts while having the same functions in the company. This research, based on a study of employees of an important beverage company located on the northern coast of Colombia intends to contribute to the solution of this gap by verifying whether there are significant differences between groups of workers hired directly and those hired under the mode of service providers (outsourcing). The study is descriptive and transversal; it relies on a hypothetical-inductive method and uses the imcoc tool (that evaluates the differences among groups in terms of the six variables that integrate it, that is: objectives, corporations, leadership, decisionmaking, inter-personal relations, motivation and control).