Organizational Climate a Predictor of Job Satisfaction among Teachers

Gowthami Chinthala

Abstract


Organizational climate includes management or leadership styles, participation in decision making, provision of challenging jobs, reduction of boredom and frustration, provision of benefits, personnel policies and provision of good working conditions and creation of suitable career ladder. Teachers’ job satisfaction is one of the key factors in institutional dynamics and understanding of factors affecting teachers’ satisfaction at the workplace is of paramount importance for a successful educational system. The study aims to explore organizational climate as a predictor of teacher’s job satisfaction. Through the review of various studies it establishes the relationship between organizational climate and job satisfaction among teachers.

Keywords


Organization, Climate, Job Satisfaction, Teachers, working conditions

Full Text:

PDF

References


Bellamy, S., Morley, C., and Watty, K. (2003).Why business academics remain in Australian universities despite deteriorating working conditions and reduced job satisfaction: An intellectual puzzle, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 25: 13-28.

Billus, Prof. Rashmi; Bharej, Prof. Kavleen. (2014). Employee Engagement-New Trend in HRD.International Journal of Research. 1 (5), p663-668.

Cohrs, J.C., Abele, A.E. & Dette, D.E. (2006). Integrating situational and dispositional determinants of job satisfaction: Findings from three samples of professionals. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied 140 (4), 363-395.

Evans, G. & Honeyman, D. S. (1998). The climate and job satisfaction among community college presidents. Visions: The Journal of Applied Research for the Florida Association of Community Colleges, 2(1), 1-2.

Friedlander, F. & Margulies, N. (1969). Multiple effects of organizational climate and individual value systems upon job satisfaction. Personnel Psychology, 22, 171-183.






Copyright (c) 2014 Gowthami Chinthala

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

All published Articles are Open Access at  https://journals.pen2print.org/index.php/ijr/ 


Paper submission: ijr@pen2print.org