The organizational climate of La Salette of Santiago and La Salette of Ramon as perceived by their administrators and teachers during the school year 1986-1987

• Main Author: Ilagan, Priscila O.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1987
• Subjects: Organizational behavior; School management and organization; Teacher-principal relationships
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1318
• Institution: De La Salle University

Statement of the Problem: Main Problem: This study attempted to determine the organizational climate of La Salette of Santiago and La Salette of Ramon during the school year 1986-1987. Sub-Problem: 1. What is the profile of the administrators and teachers perceiving the organizational climate according to age, sex, educational qualification and length of service in the school. 2. What is the organizational climate of each of the following schools as perceived by its administrators and teachers? a. La Salette of Santiago b. La Salette of Ramon 3. What is the perceived organizational climate of each school based on institutional variables of number of teachers, student population, teacher-student ratio and faculty workload. 4. Is there a significant difference between the administrators' and teachers' perception of the organizational climate in each school? 5. Based on the findings what guidelines maybe proposed to improve the organizational climate of La Salette of Santiago and La Salette of Ramon? Procedure: This study made use of the descriptive-comparative method of research using the personal data sheet and the OCDQ as instrument. The subjects or respondents of the study consisted of ten administrators, seven from La Salette of Santiago and three from La Salette of Ramon, and 62 teachers 45 from La Salette of Santiago and 17 from La Salette of Ramon. Treatment of the data: The statistical treatment of this study included frequency, proportion or percentage distribution, computation of means and the t-test. Findings: 1. Demographic profile of respondents. La Salette of Santiago. There are seven administrators whose ages range from 26 to 51. There are more male administrators than females. Four of these administrators are Master's degree holders. Three of them have only 1-5 years of service in the school and the rest have stayed for more than six years. There are more female teachers comprising 88.89 per cent of the total population. The ages of the teachers are clustered in the 26-40 category. Most of the teachers or 71.11 per cent have MA units. There are 53.3 per cent of teachers who have served for 6-10 years in the school. b. La Salette of Ramon. There are only three administrators in Ramon whose ages ranges from 31 to 35. Two are Master's degree holders who have served the school for 6 to ten years. Out of the 17 teachers in Ramon only one is a male. The age range of teachers is from 26 to 35. Fourteen teachers have MA units. More than one half or 58.82 have been in the school for only one to five years. 2. Organizational climate as perceived by administrators and teachers, La Salette of Santiago - The Administrators and teachers perceived the school climate to be more controlled with some tendencies to be autonomous and familiar with little tendencies to be open, paternal and closed. La Salette of Ramon - The Administrators and teachers perceived the climate to be shifting between autonomous and familiar with some tendencies to be controlled and open and the least tendency to be paternal and closed. 3. La Salette of Santiago with a higher student and teacher population and where 16 teachers are overloaded perceived the climate to be more controlled, and La Salette of Ramon with a lesser student and teacher population where no teacher is overloaded perceived the climate to be more autonomous. 4. When the general perceptions of the administrators and the