THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND TEACHERS’ TEAMWORK IN SCHOOLS UNDER THE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE PHRA NAKHON SI AYUTTHAYA

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to study the level of organizational climate of schools in the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. 2) to study the level of teachers’ teamwork in school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. 3) to examine the relationship between organizational climate and teachers’ teamwork in school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. The population consisted of 1,365 teachers working in schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. The sample comprised 302 teachers, obtained via stratified random sampling based on the Krejcie and Morgan table. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire with a five-point rating scale. The questionnaire comprised three parts: general information of the respondents with 4 items, organizational climate with 30 items, and teachers’ teamwork with 25 items. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s product–moment correlation coefficient. The research findings were as follows: 1) the overall and individual aspects of organizational climate were at a high level ( = 4.10, S.D. = 0.34) 2) the overall and individual aspects of teachers’ teamwork were at a high level ( = 4.14, S.D. = 0.33) and 3) organizational climate and teachers’ teamwork were positively correlated at a moderate level (r = .617,
p < .001) which was statistically significant at the .001 level.