Abstract
Purpose: In organizational life, job satisfaction and organizational culture are important in terms of the efficiency of organizations and the performance of employees. This is also true for educational organizations. It is a necessary element for the quality and efficiency of education that teachers, who have an important place in the education system, are satisfied with their jobs and have a positive school culture. Successful fulfillment of their profession by teachers is related to the fact that they enjoy the responsibilities of their profession, feel belonging to the school they work in, and feel happy in their work. Psychological well-being of teachers who are satisfied with their job will also be improved. It is seen in the related literature that schools with a strong school culture promote the motivation of teachers and increase the level of satisfaction they feel from their jobs. In this context, the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between the perceptions of school culture and job satisfaction of teachers at the basic education level. For this purpose, the study investigated whether the perceptions of school culture and job satisfaction levels of teachers at the basic education level vary significantly by the variables of gender, age, branch, professional seniority and employment type.
Method and Materials: The research was designed in compatible with the causal-comparative model. The study group consists of 347 teachers, 44 of whom are pre-school, 94 classrooms, and 209 branches, working in the Meram District of Konya. Personal Information Form, School Culture Scale and Job Satisfaction Scale
were used as data collection tools in the research.
Results: According to the results of the research, a statistically significant relationship was found between teachers’ perceptions and sub-dimensions of school culture and their job satisfaction. When teachers’ perceptions of school culture were analyzed according to their demographic information, there was no significant difference in terms of gender, while a significant difference was observed in age, branch, professional seniority, and employment type. When the job satisfaction levels of the teachers were analyzed according to the demographic variables, there was a difference in the gender variable.