The Predictive Roles of Organizational Culture and Psychological Symptoms on Job Satisfaction

This study was designed in a relational survey model to examine the relationships between teachers' organizational culture, job satisfaction and psychological symptoms. The predictive roles of teachers' perceptions of organizational culture and various psychological symptoms on their perceptions of job satisfaction were essentially. Data were collected by reaching 335 teachers working in public or private schools at primary, secondary and high school levels. According to the findings of the study, a high level positive relationship was observed between organizational culture and job satisfaction. A moderate negative relationship was found between teachers' negative self-perceptions and hostility feelings and job satisfaction. When negative self-perception and hostility variables are combined with school culture, they negatively affect teachers' perception of job satisfaction. This study shows that increasing job satisfaction, which is a vital issue for teachers for different reasons, can be possible by improving school culture and that the school culture variable can reduce the negative effect of negative self-concept and hostility on job satisfaction.