No time to talk! Teachers' perception of workplace communication
Schad, Elinor LU
(2017)
39th Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association
- Abstract
- Teachers’ perception of organizational communication was assessed with a tailored questionnaire sampling 401 primary and lower secondary school teachers from two municipalities in Sweden (response rate 61 %). Overall, the teachers were satisfied with the workplace communication climate, the communication structure, and collegial communication, while time for communication, was reported deficient. Utilizing a Job demands-resource framework and hierarchical linear regression, the organizational communication variables were shown to predict job satisfaction even when controlling for relevant work environment indicators. In total, the model predicts 49.2 % of the variance in job satisfaction. School leaders should preferably focus both on... (More)
- Teachers’ perception of organizational communication was assessed with a tailored questionnaire sampling 401 primary and lower secondary school teachers from two municipalities in Sweden (response rate 61 %). Overall, the teachers were satisfied with the workplace communication climate, the communication structure, and collegial communication, while time for communication, was reported deficient. Utilizing a Job demands-resource framework and hierarchical linear regression, the organizational communication variables were shown to predict job satisfaction even when controlling for relevant work environment indicators. In total, the model predicts 49.2 % of the variance in job satisfaction. School leaders should preferably focus both on providing opportunities for collegial interactions and actively work to improve the communication climate in schools. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Teachers’ perception of organizational communication was assessed with a tailored questionnaire sampling 401 primary and lower secondary school teachers from two municipalities in Sweden (response rate 61 %). Overall, the teachers were satisfied with the workplace communication climate, the communication structure, and collegial communication, while time for communication, was reported deficient. Utilizing a Job demands-resource framework and hierarchical linear regression, the organizational communication variables were shown to predict job satisfaction even when controlling for relevant work environment indicators. In total, the model predicts 49.2 % of the variance in job satisfaction. School leaders should preferably focus both on... (More)
- Teachers’ perception of organizational communication was assessed with a tailored questionnaire sampling 401 primary and lower secondary school teachers from two municipalities in Sweden (response rate 61 %). Overall, the teachers were satisfied with the workplace communication climate, the communication structure, and collegial communication, while time for communication, was reported deficient. Utilizing a Job demands-resource framework and hierarchical linear regression, the organizational communication variables were shown to predict job satisfaction even when controlling for relevant work environment indicators. In total, the model predicts 49.2 % of the variance in job satisfaction. School leaders should preferably focus both on providing opportunities for collegial interactions and actively work to improve the communication climate in schools. (Less)
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- 2017-07-19 - 2017-07-22
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