Relationship between the organizational climate and occupational stress experienced by english instructors in the preparatory schools of five universities in Ankara

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Tezin Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2013

Öğrenci: ERSİN SOYLU

Danışman: GÖKÇE GÖKALP

Özet:

Relationship between the organizational climate and occupational stress experienced by English instructors in the Preparatory Schools of five universities in Ankara was examined. Role of the administrator in either preventing or lessening the occupational stress of the instructors related to his supportive or restrictive approach was explored. In addition, role of the teachers’ behavior as being collegial or indifferent, and its relationship with the occupational stress of the other teachers was examined. 276 instructors working in the English departments of five universities completed two questionnaires. The predictor variable was the organizational climate with six subscales as supportive administrator, directive administrator, restrictive administrator, collegial teacher, intimate teacher and indifferent teacher. It was measured by the Organizational Climate Index (OCI) designed by Hoy and Tarter (1997), and translated to Turkish by Yılmaz and Altınkurt (2013). The dependent variable was occupational stress measured by the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) designed by Fimian and Fastenau (1990), and translated to Turkish by Kızıltepe (2007). The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between a supportive, and/or restrictive administer and the occupational stress of the v instructors. The results also showed that working with collegial, and/or indifferent instructors had impact on the occupational stress of the instructors. The implications of these findings were discussed and recommendations for further research were made.