The relationship between job satisfaction and organizational stressors of the administrators in primary schools (a case study in Gaziantep)

This study aims to identify the relationship between job satisfaction and sources of organizational stress of the administrators in primary schools. The study is designed based on descripture method and relational research model. The scope of the study consist of 284 administrators of primary schools located in Sehitkamil and Sahinbey in Gaziantep in 2005-2006. In this study ?The Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale? developed by D.J. Dawis and his friends (1967) and adapted into Tukish by Telman (1988) and ?Reasons of Organizational Stres Scale? developed by Pehlivan (1993) were used as data collection tools. The collected data were analyzed through pearson product correlation tecnique, mean, percentage, independent samples, t-test, one way ANOVA and LSD test to analyze the sources of the differences. Analysis of data confirmed that there is a low negative and significant (r= -,24, p<0,01) relationship between the job satisfaction and reasons of organizational stress. It was found that the level of job satisfaction of the administrators participated in the study is normal. It was determined that the administrators participated in the study mostly perceive the stress reasons related to ?authority structure? among the reasons of organizational stress and the stress related to the ?cultural structure? at minimum. While the variables of tenure and title of service cause a significant vairance in the perception of the job satisfaction of the administrators participated in the study, it has come out that the variables in the case of attending in courses, seminars etc related to gender, age, number of teachers, educational management have no significant variances. Findings revealed that the variables in the case of attending courses, seminars etc related to age, title of service, number of teacher, educational management have no significant variances while significant difference was observed in the variables of gender and tenure based on the perception of reasons of organizational stress of the administrators paticipated in the study. The findings were analyzed with in the context of literature. Some suggestions were drawn from the finding.