A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor

This study investigates the nuanced interplay between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction within the context of Selangor, Malaysia. Preschool education serves as a critical foundation for children's cognitive, social, and emotional development, making the satisf...

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Main Author: Wang, Wan Yin
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2024
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Online Access:http://eprints.utar.edu.my/7135/
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description This study investigates the nuanced interplay between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction within the context of Selangor, Malaysia. Preschool education serves as a critical foundation for children's cognitive, social, and emotional development, making the satisfaction and well-being of preschool teacher’s paramount. However, the impact of the organizational climate within preschool settings on teacher job satisfaction remains underexplored, particularly within the Malaysian context. The study also investigates the relationship between school organizational climate specifically focuses on the nine subscales of organizational climate, namely supportive behaviour, directive behavior, restrictive behavior, collegial behavior, intimate behavior and disengaged behavior preschool and teachers’ total job satisfaction. This research adopted Person-Environment Occupational Performance (PEOP) model as theoretical framework and employed a quantitative correlational design. Utilizing the Hoy et al (1991) Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ-RE) and Spector’s (1985) Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) as research instrument, the study was conducted using convenient sampling involving 79 preschool teachers in Selangor. These findings reveal that there is a significant positive relationship between supportive, directive, collegial, intimate, and disengaged behaviors in the organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction. However, contrary to the hypothesis, the relationship between restrictive behavior and preschool teacher job satisfaction was found to be non-significant. The study's limitations include small sample size, questionnaire length affecting participation and the quantitative research method employed. It is recommended that adopted large sample size, shorten the questionnaire for better participation rates, and incorporate multiple methods of data collection. Keywords: Organizational Climate, Job Satisfaction, Preschool Teachers, Selangor
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spelling utar-71352025-06-01T15:08:16Z A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor Wang, Wan Yin L Education (General) LC Special aspects of education This study investigates the nuanced interplay between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction within the context of Selangor, Malaysia. Preschool education serves as a critical foundation for children's cognitive, social, and emotional development, making the satisfaction and well-being of preschool teacher’s paramount. However, the impact of the organizational climate within preschool settings on teacher job satisfaction remains underexplored, particularly within the Malaysian context. The study also investigates the relationship between school organizational climate specifically focuses on the nine subscales of organizational climate, namely supportive behaviour, directive behavior, restrictive behavior, collegial behavior, intimate behavior and disengaged behavior preschool and teachers’ total job satisfaction. This research adopted Person-Environment Occupational Performance (PEOP) model as theoretical framework and employed a quantitative correlational design. Utilizing the Hoy et al (1991) Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ-RE) and Spector’s (1985) Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) as research instrument, the study was conducted using convenient sampling involving 79 preschool teachers in Selangor. These findings reveal that there is a significant positive relationship between supportive, directive, collegial, intimate, and disengaged behaviors in the organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction. However, contrary to the hypothesis, the relationship between restrictive behavior and preschool teacher job satisfaction was found to be non-significant. The study's limitations include small sample size, questionnaire length affecting participation and the quantitative research method employed. It is recommended that adopted large sample size, shorten the questionnaire for better participation rates, and incorporate multiple methods of data collection. Keywords: Organizational Climate, Job Satisfaction, Preschool Teachers, Selangor 2024 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/7135/1/2002568_FYP.pdf Wang, Wan Yin (2024) A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/7135/
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A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor
title A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor
title_full A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor
title_fullStr A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor
title_full_unstemmed A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor
title_short A study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in Selangor
title_sort study of relationship between school organizational climate and preschool teacher job satisfaction in selangor
topic L Education (General)
LC Special aspects of education
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/7135/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/7135/1/2002568_FYP.pdf