A Study of the Organizational Climate of Secondary Schools in Guji Zone of Oromia National Regional State
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2009-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study on the Organizational Climate of Secondary Schools in Guji zone of Oromia
National Regional State was conducted with purposes of investigating the organizational
climate status and examining the relationships of some school- specific characteristics with
the prevailing climates status of the secondary schools in the study area. A descriptive
survey through quantitative and qualitative approaches was designed to conduct the study.
Subjects for the study were secondary school teachers and principals, secondary school
supervisors at the woreda offices, and those supervisors at the zonal education office. Data
were gathered through an adapted standardized questionnaire known as OCDQ-RS, a
designed semi-structured interview, and the analysis of relevant documents. Statistical tools
such as mean, variance, percentages and grand median followed by statistical test of
significance like chi-square ( X 2), one- way ANOVA and Sheff'e pair wise comparison were
used in data processing and interpretation. The study disclosed the existence of significant
differences among the secondary schools of the study area with respect to the status of
their organizational climate of schools where the majority of the secondary schools tended
to a relatively less open (more of closed) climates of their school. Principals' ages and their
teaching and/or administrative experiences and teachers' ages and their lengths of
teaching experiences were found to be associated with the organizational climate status of
their schools. Lack of principal ship experiences, heavy work loads due to extra nonteaching
responsibilities upon teachers, little or no concern for positive interpersonal
interactions between and among principals and teachers were some of the suggested
problems by respondents of this study. The joint efforts of the principals, teachers and
others concerned to create a favorable working relationship in the secondary schools were
among the recommendations that would help to improve the less favorable organizational
climate prevailing in the majority of the secondary schools of the zone.
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Organizational Climate of Secondary Schools