ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN SCHOOLS AS CORRELATES OF TEACHERS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABIA STATE

Prof. Perpetua Okorji & Nzewi, Felicia Ebelechukwu
Department of Educational Management and Policy
Faculty of Education,
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka

Abstract

The unfavourable nature of organizational culture of secondary schools which impedes creativity prompted the study to investigate organizational culture in schools as correlates of teachers’ job satisfaction in public secondary schools in Abia State. The study was guided by three research questions and three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 4,812 teachers in the 277 public secondary schools in Abia State. A sample size of 722 teachers was drawn for the study using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Two set of instruments titled “Organizational Culture Scale (OCS) adopted from Suvaci (2018) and “Teachers’ Job Satisfaction Scale (TJSC)’’ adopted from Nanjundeswaraswamy (2019) were used for data collection. The adopted standardized instruments required no validation. The instruments were subjected to test of internal consistency using Cronbach alpha which yielded overall coefficient of 0.80 for OCS and 0.77 for TJSC.  The researcher together with three research assistants administered copies of the questionnaires directly to the respondents and a 98 percent return rate of the instruments was recorded. Data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation for the research questions 1 and 2, and t-test of correlation for the hypotheses 1 and 2, while multiple regression to answer research question 3 and hypothesis 3. The findings of the study revealed among others that there is strong relationship between supportive organizational culture in schools and teachers’ job satisfaction in public secondary schools in Abia State. It was also found out that bureaucratic organizational culture in schools has weak positive relationship with teachers’ job satisfaction in public secondary schools in Abia State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that principals should reduce the rigidity in bureaucratic organizational culture that minimizes the freedom of staff to execute tasks in order to enhance their job satisfaction.

Keywords: Organizational Culture, Supportive, Bureaucratic, Teachers, Job Satisfaction