The effect of organizational culture in secondary schools on professional satisfaction of managers and teachers

The aim of research is to identify perceptions of managers and teachers towards organizational culture working in randomly chosen schools of Esenyurt county and obtain their satisfaction degrees from their professional lives and if there is a significant relation between satisfaction degrees and these perceptions. Organization is a unit that is formed with people gathered for a specific purpose by taking job hierarchy and distribution into consideration. Human inherently always feels need of involving an organization rather than being alone. By this means he fulfills his needs of belonging, finding solutions together and socializing and increases his satisfaction level from life. So we encountered satisfaction level and the degree of this level. Since globalizing world and business life occupy a great place in human life, organization concept extends its limits more. Accordingly they turned out to be living structures that have cultures and characters. These living structures also show themselves in schools that occupy a very important place in education of human as a social being. In this research the effect of organizational culture on professional satisfaction of managers and teachers in secondary schools which is also an educational organization and there reached various results. The Aim of Research In this research the effect of organizational culture on professional satisfaction of managers and teachers in secondary schools, was examined. In this research the quality of organizational culture and professional satisfaction concepts, their classification, taking them with their different dimensions and obtaining relation between them is rather important. The aim of research is to obtain school culture in institutions of managers and teachers working in secondary schools, present their communication within organization as well as their professional satisfaction levels, identify if there is significant difference according to socio-demographic properties in terms of school culture and professional satisfaction level and develop solution offers for problems regarding the matters in hand. 1.3. Sub Problems The sub problems of research consisted of 15 items. By using the datas in personal data form, the sub problems of research were formed. Population and Sampling Managers and teachers of secondary schools working in İstanbul province formed the population of research. The sampling involved 6 secondary schools that were randomly chosen from Esenyurt county in İstanbul province. Collection of Datas The conceptual frame of this research was formed by literature scanning obtained from domestic and foreign resources. In order to obtain datas one demographic data form, one School Culture Scale and one Minnesota Professional Satisfaction Scale were used. Demographic data form consisted of 6 questions (APP-I). These questions were about professional title, gender, age, professional service period, service period in actual school, graduation level. Other scales were School Culture Scale (APP-II) and Minnesota Professional Satisfaction Scale (APP-III). School Culture Scale consisted of 22 questions whereas Minnesota Professional Satisfaction Scale consisted of 20 questions. 1st-2nd-3rd-4th-7th-8th-9th-10th-11th-15th-16th and 20th items were aimed to measure inner professional satisfaction level whereas 5th-6th-12th-13th-14th-17th-18th and 19th items were aimed to measure outer professional satisfaction level. Findings Among 136 managers and teachers in sampling of research 9 (6,6%) of them were managers and 127 (93,4%) of them were teachers. 85 (62,5%) of these managers and teachers were vomen whereas 51 (37,5%) of them were men. Among managers and teachers in sampling of research 77 (56,6%) of them were between 21-29 age interval, 49 (36%) of them were between 30-39, 8 (5,9%) of them were 40-49 and 2 (1,5%) of them were over 50. As we examined their professional service it was observed that 17 (12,5%) of them were below a year, 67 (49,3%) of them were between 1-5 years, 31 (22,8%) of them were between 6-10 years, 14 (10,3%) of them were between 11-15 years, 7 (5,1%) of them were 16 years and over.When we examined their professional service in their actual schools it was observed that 37 (27,2%) of them were below a year, 90 (66,2%) of them were between 1-5 years, 6 (4,4%) of them were between 6-10 years, 2 (1,5%) of them were between 11-15 years, 1 (0,7%) of them were 16 years and over. The points of participants managers and teachers from school culture questionnaire were not found significantly different in terms of professional title, age, pofessional service period, service period in actual schools and graduation level variables however there obtained a significant difference in terms of gender variable (t=2,51; p <, 0,5). However in order to obtain if there is a significant relation between the points they got from school culture questionnaire and professional satisfaction scale, Pearson analysis was applied and as a result of this analysis the relation between variables was observed as negatively significant (r=-,393 ; p<,05). Key words: Organization, organizational culture, professional satisfaction.