Assessing the effect of organizational culture on teachers’ job satisfaction in general secondary schools of horo guduru wollega zone

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of organizational culture on teachers’ job satisfaction in General Secondary Schools of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone of Oromiya Regional state (HGWZO ). Among the 28 General secondary schools,8 of them were selected using multistate sampling through simple random sampling technique (lottery method) .Accordingly,8 General Secondary Schools were selected from 4 woredas .Besides,264 teacher respondents for questionnaires and 2 Principals, 3 viceprincipals, 2 secondary school supervisors and 2 heads of woreda Educational Office participants were selected for interview. Questionnaire was the main instrument of data collection. Interview and document analysis were used to substantiate the data gathered through questionnaires. Data analysis was performed by using SPSS software version 20 and employed descriptive statistics that included frequency, percentage, mean through interview and document analysis, and standard deviations. Correlation coefficient also used to compare the effects of organizational culture on teachers job satisfaction. The qualitative data obtained were analyzed using narration. The results of the study revealed that organizational culture factors such as: lack of recognitions, encouragements, high workloads and low incentives, lack of organizational communication, problem of the rules and procedures of the schools and inefficient leaderships highly affected teachers job satisfaction . Finally, recommendations were drawn based on the above findings. The point of the recommendations includes WEO are recommended to arrange free discussion from time to time among teachers, principals, school committees and with outside communities to develop the culture of open communication system in schools. In order to create conductive teaching learning process, WEO advised to select school leaders carefully according to their ability who could develop supportive organizational culture. Finally, School leaders recommended creating supportive organizational culture that focus on organizational culture related to employees and exercise such activities which may raise the level of cooperation, mutual trust, respect of opinions and thoughts of teachers and open mindedness to seek and accept feedback among them.