The effect of organizational conflict on job satisfaction of preschool teachers

Preschool teachers are randomly selected from this population as thesample of thestudy.'Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) ' and 'Organizational Conflict Scale' are applied to sample group of teachers on a voluntary basis. Internal consisten cyreliability is examined in order to determine whether these survey instruments are suitable for the sampleor not. According to the data taken from 'Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS)', Coefficient of internal consistencyis .86. Also, the following internal concsistency values of sub-factors are obtained from 'Organizational Conflict Scale': intra-group conflict: .861, inter-group conflict: .637, personal conflict: .621. These analyses reveal that theses calesareinternally concistent. In the study, findings indicate that job satisfaction level is low but organizational conflict level is high in general. There sultsalso indicate that relation shipexists between job satisfaction and organizational conflict, albeit a middle relationship. No significant difference is observed in terms of gender, age, seniority, educational backround and institutions where teachers work. However, a significant difference is observed in terms of maritalstatusfactor. Single teacher's job satisfactionlevel is higher than married teachers. Besides, whensub-factors of organizationalconflictareanalysed, nosignificantdifference is observed in terms of gender, age, maritalstatus, seniority, educational backroundand the institutions they work. Keywords; Conflict, Jobsatisfaction, Preschool, Organization, Teacher