Organizational Climate and Job Satisfaction: Motivating Factors for Teacher’s Engagement to Their Work

Abstract

Teacher’s engagement is essential for delivering high quality education and fostering a positive learning environment. Engaged teachers are more motivated, innovated, and committed to attend needs of student as well as improvement of school. School education forms a foundation for every student. Therefore, it is important to explore factors which motivate the teachers to be actively involve in their work. Considering this, the present study examines the interaction of organizational climate, job satisfaction and teachers engagement. A sample of 84 teachers (46 female and 38 male teachers) from various public and government schools of Varanasi city, participated in the study. The data were collected by using the Work Engagement Questionnaire, Job Satisfaction Scale, and Organizational Climate Scale. The result revealed that the prevailing organizational climate within schools and level of job satisfaction experienced by teachers, have positive relation to engagement of teachers. And job satisfaction was found major influential factor to predict teacher’s engagement to their work. These findings highlight the importance of positive climate and job satisfaction in enhancing teacher engagement. By providing positive climate and creating a satisfied teachers school administration or policy maker can capture competency of teachers.