Workers who experience job dissatisfaction tend to lose their joy and happiness in their work that leads to low motivation, performance, commitment and eventually results in leaving their job. This brings long term negative effects to the organization and provides opportunity for rivalry. Hence, a study on the practice of healthy and positive organizational climate need to be carried out to increase the level of the teachers' job satisfaction to enhance the performance of the organization. Recent studies in organizational climate which involve four dimensions namely collegial leadership, professional teacher behaviour, achievement press and institutional vulnerability portrays the potential in influencing the teachers' job satisfaction. This study delves into the influence of these four dimensions in organizational climate towards the teachers' job satisfaction in the aspects of promotion, pay, supervision, working procedures and co-workers. This study is based on the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ) by Hoy, Smith and Sweetland (2002) to measure the organization climate and the combination of two instruments of questionnaire to measure job satisfaction which are Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) by Spector (1985) and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) by Weiss, Dais, England and Lofquist (1967). Quantitative analysis is done using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 24 towards 50 academic teachers in the Form Six centres. The findings show that organization climate in particular has a significant influence towards job satisfaction among the academic teachers in the Form Six Centres. The mean scores of job satisfaction and the organizational climate were at a moderate level, but job satisfaction based on teaching experience is at a high level, and there was no significant differences between gender.
This study was conducted to study the influence of the development of values in 21st century education on the forming of student’ personality in rural Under-Enrolled School (SKM) in Sabah. In addition, this study examines the difference in the mean score of the development of value approach in 21st century education and the forming of student’ personality in rural Under-Enrolled School (SKM) in Sabah. This study uses non-experimental design and quantitative methods. A total of 209 SKM teachers were selected to be sampled in this study. This sample was determined using a simple random sampling method. Questionnaire instruments were used to obtain information from the respondents. The primary data obtained from the respondents were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software using inferential statistics analysis involving Linear Regression analysis. The results of the analysis show that there is a significant positive and strong influence between the development of value approach in 21st century education on the forming of student’ personality in rural Under-Enrolled School (SKM) in Sabah (Beta=0.88, t=27.65). The results of this study are expected to provide useful input to various parties, especially the Ministry of Education Malaysia in an effort to improve the school's ability to produce students who are personal and able to contribute to the development of the country.