The Development of the Organizational Climate Index for High Schools: Its Measure and Relationship to Faculty Trust

Abstract

A parsimonious measure of organizational climate of high schools is developed and tested in this research. The Organizational Climate Index (OCI) captures open and healthy dimensions of high school climates at the student, teacher, principal, and community levels. Next the relationship between the climate of schools and faculty trust is examined in a large, diverse sample of high schools (N=97). Different dimensions of high school climate explain distinct aspects of faculty trust-faculty trust in colleagues, in principals, and in clients (students and parents).

Relationship Between School Climate and Teachers’ Commitment in an Excellent School of Kubang Pasu District, Kedah, Malaysia

“…The questionnaire is divided into three sections; section A is teachers' demography with 2 items, section B is the Organizational Climate Index (OCI) that consists of 4 school climate dimensions adapted from Hoy et al (2002) with 28 items. Section C has 28 items adapted from Celep (2000) that relates to teachers' commitment in school to measure organization commitment.…”

“…This instrument, adapted from Hoy et al (2002) contains 27 items to examine school climate and school transparency. There are 4 dimensions which measure collaborative leadership, teachers' professional behavior, work pressure and institutional transparency.…”

“…The instrument used 4-point Likert scale that denotes 1-'seldom occurs' to 4-'very often occurs'. Hoy et al (2002) in his study, has conducted reliability test item on this instrument and the reliability index for all 4 dimensions were as follows: collaborative leadership (.94), teachers' professional behavior (.88), work pressure (.92), and institutional transparency (.87).…”

“…Teachers' professional behavior refers to show of respect towards colleagues' competency, commitment towards the students, autonomy assessment, cooperation and support between colleagues (Hoy, Smith, & Sweetland, 2002). Respect towards colleagues and collaborative work will create harmonic working environment.…”

Bullying and Perceived School Climate: Victims’ and Bullies’ Perspective

“…School climate research includes students' perceptions of their peer's behavior towards them and their perceptions of how much teachers (and other school staff) care about them and treat them fairly (Hoy, Smith, & Sweetland, 2002).…”