Organizational Climate at Primary Schools and Its Influences on Teachers Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Organizational climate has influences on the way members behave and perceive in anorganization. It has four basic factors; structural, human resource, political, and symbolicframes. While the human resources frame means teamwork, the structural frame accountsto guidance, the symbolic frame infers trust and the political frame means autonomy. Thisdescriptive quantitative study was conducted to discover if these elements influence teachers’intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. Results reveal that while male teachers perceive schoolenvironment more positively, female participants have higher intrinsic job satisfaction. Whileyounger teachers perceive all factors more positively, experienced teachers perceive symbolicframe more positively. Regarding age is concerned, while the teachers who are 41 years old andover have more intrinsic job satisfaction, the younger ones have more extrinsic job satisfaction.