Quality of Work Life and Organizational Climate of Schools Located along the Thai-Cambodian Borders

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to measure the Quality of Work Life and Organizational Climate of Schools located along the Thai-Cambodian borders. The study intended to measure the relationship between the two underlying variables quality of work life and organizational climate. Simple random sample of 384 respondents were administrators and teachers of drawn from various schools along the border area. The research instrument was constructed by the researcher and tested for reliability, which holds good reliability. The statistical tools used for the study are Mean, T-Test and Pearson’s Simple Correlation. The result of the study indicates that there is an evidence for the existence of quality of work life and organizational climate in schools at high level. Whereas the items safe environment/health promotion and risk/acceptance of risks gained low scores, means it must be given more emphasis by schools. The result of correlation analysis reveals that there is strong positive association found between Quality of work life and Organizational climate at .759, but the association among the individual dimensions of QWL and organizational climate are moderate/weak. Only few dimensions have strong positive association among them. Further to probe, importance should be given to address the weak factors and eliminate the discrepancies to improve the relationship between QWL and Organizational climate.

Keywords: Quality of Work Life (QWL); Organizational Climate, Schools, Thai-Cambodian Borders