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ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO TEACHER JOB SATISFACTION
Auther : Nadia Sherief
The purpose of the study is to determine the prevailed climate in the educational environment and its relationship to job satisfaction on the part of teachers.
The sample consisted of teachers in a number of schools representing the ccredit and traditional system.
To test the study’s hypotheses , the researchers utilized two instruments :
1. The organizations climate questionnaire developed by/ Melben & Kraft.
Instrument was revised to suit the kuwaiti environment ; It embodied six kinds of climate : open climate , directed climate , parental climate , self – directed climate , familial climate , and closed climate .
2. A questionnaire constructed by the researcher deals with job satisfaction .
The findings of study can be summarized as follow :
There were statistically significant differences with regard to the organizational climate between the credits system and traditional schools .
The first type of schools was closer to the open climate, while the second type of schools was closer to the familial climate.
There were no statically significant differences between boys schools and girls schools in favor girl school with regard to teachers behaviors in affiliation and familiarity dimensions and principal’s behavior in consent ration and mode dimensions .
In fact the differences can be attributed to the girls schools within the credit system .
There were statistically significant differences with regard to job satisfaction in favor of girls credit system schools .
The open climate was the determinant factor in job satisfaction wich prevailed in the credit system schools .