Effect of Organizational Climate on Secondary School Teacher’s Competence: A Gender, Locale, Qualification and Experience Base Study
Abstract
The current study's aim is to assess the impact of organizational climate on teacher’s competence regarding the different demographic factors of the secondary school teachers. This study's population included all Secondary School Teachers (male and female) and all 10th grade students from urban and rural areas in Punjab's secondary public schools. The instruments used to collect the responses from the target sample were Organizational climate index (OCI) for organizational climate, Teacher’s competence scale (TCS) for rating the Teacher’s competence and an observation schedule for rating the organizational climate. 360 Secondary school teachers and 900 students of grade 10th participated in this study. According to data analysis through SPSS (V-21) the findings of Pearson Correlation between Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Competences showed that organizational climate being independent variable positively influence the dependent variable i.e., teacher’s competence. It was concluded that Organizational Climate was positively and significantly correlated with Teachers’ competence. This indicates that by improving the organizational climate scores, the teacher’s competence can be improved. he Comparison of male and female teachers on organizational climate through independent samples t-Test was conducted. There is a major gap in leadership phase of male and female teacher
Authors
Parvaiz Iqbal Ch
Ph. D Scholar, Department of education, University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Pro. Dr. Khalid Rashid
Professor, Department of education, University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Demographic Factors, Organizational Climate, School Climate Teacher’s Competence