School Climate Affecting Job Satisfaction of Teachers in Primary Education, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Abstract

The school Climate was a feeling of work practice towards visible characteristics of organization. It would have influence on determining the work practitioners’ behavior and attitude. the school Climate was important to cause one's Job Satisfaction as well as affect working efficiency. Therefore, the Teachers’ Work Satisfaction was an integral indicator leading to effectiveness in school. If the teachers were satisfied in work practice in school, that work practice would be easily successful. The purposes of this research were to study the school climate affecting job satisfaction of teachers in Primary Education and to study the school climate factors affecting job satisfaction of teachers. Sampling group for this study was remained only 329 teachers based on Krejcie and Morgan's (1970) table. Research findings were as follows; 1) Overall of the school climate affecting job satisfaction of teachers was at a “high” level. The success and unity were found with the highest mean while the lowest one was the responsibility. 2) Overall of teachers’ job satisfaction was at a “high” level. The career characteristic was found with the highest mean while the lowest one was the salary and other related stipends.3) There were 6 aspects of the organizational climate affecting the job satisfaction of teachers including; 1) performance standard, 2) responsibility, 3) unity, 4) reward, 5) success and 6) leadership. The value of multiple correlation coefficient was 0.84 and the coefficient of prediction or prediction capability was found at 71.60% with statistical significance at the .05 level.