The major purpose of this study was to examine the relations of learning organization level perceived by primary school teachers to job satisfaction. The over-all guiding questions for this study were:
1) To what extent is the level of learning organization perceived by primary school teachers?
2) To what extent is the level of job satisfaction achieved by primary school teachers?
3) Does the perceived level of learning organization and achieved job satisfaction of primary school teachers in terms of gender, subject matter and, service period change? It is aimed to determine whether or not there were significant differences in the primary school teachers’ perceptions of the learning organization dimensions and job satisfaction based on demographics variables.
4) In which level sub-dimensions of learning organizations (personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, system thinking, team learning) predict job satisfaction of primary school teachers?
Methods
The quantitative survey research method was used to investigate the relationship between learning organization and job satisfaction. The model of the research is a descriptive correlation survey design. The methodology includes sample of the research, instruments, how the data is collected and how the data is analyzed.
Data Sources (Sample of the Research)
Targeted population of the research were 2387 primary school teachers working in the city center of Van province, eastern part of Turkey, in academic year 2011-2012. 450 primary school teachers were selected as cluster sampling. Lists of schools and school districts were obtained from provincial Office of Education. There are five school districts in the city center of Van province. Each school district was divided into three levels -low, middle, and high- in terms of social economic status (SES). Finally from each school district three schools (low, middle, and high) were selected via simple random sampling. Thus, 5 low, 5 middle and 5 high SES schools, totally 15 schools, were selected as sample.
There were 196 (45.7%) female and 233 (54.3%) male participants. Of those, 243 (56.6%) were class teachers; 186 (43.4%) were subject matter teachers. The sample represented participants at different career stages: 156 (36.4%) participants worked as teachers for less than 5 years; 137 (31.9%) served for 6 to 10 years; and 136 (31.7%) worked as teachers for 11 and more years.
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