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Vol.5, No.1, February 2016. ISSN: 2217-8309 eISSN: 2217-8333
TEM Journal
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science |
The Influence of School Culture and Organizational Health of Secondary School Teachers in Malaysia
Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah, Anantha Raj A. Arokiasamy
© 2016 Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah and Anantha Raj A. Arokiasamy: published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 56–59, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM51-09, February 2016
Abstract:
This study aims to determine the level of school culture practices by school principals in the national secondary schools in the state of Kedah, Malaysia. The six dimensions of school culture studied were teacher collaboration, unity of purpose, professional development, collegial support, learning partnership and collaborative leadership. The study also looks at the level of teachers’ job satisfaction as well as the relationship with the practice of a positive school culture by the national secondary school principals. The respondents consisted of 385 teachers employed in 22 national secondary schools in the state of Kedah. The data obtained was analysed using SPSS version 20.0. Descriptive analysis and Pearson Correlation Coefficient were used to analyse the strength of the relationship. The findings of this study revealed that there was a positive correlation between school culture and job satisfaction according to teachers’ perceptions. In addition, the school culture was statistically determined to be an important predictor variable of job satisfaction
Keywords – school culture, job satisfaction, school principals and teachers |
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