Investigating the relationship between organizational climate and organizational commitment and organizational effectiveness among school managers: A case study in Fars province in Iran

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and organizational commitment and organizational effectiveness of the managers of the secondary schools in Fars. The research method is descriptive of correlational type and the statistical community consists of managers working in secondary school in the year 2012-2013 (1500 people). The sample size is 306 people based on Morgan tables. The managers were chosen randomly from a number of schools in Fars. Data collection tools were three questionnaires on Halbyn and Craft organizational climate (1963), Porter et al organizational commitment (1974), Fayol, Freedman, and Lailz (2001) were used which their reliability coefficient is 0.81, 0.81, and 0.88, respectively. For data analysis, inferential statistic methods were used (Pearson correlation and multiple regression) using SPSS 19. The results of the study show that there is a significant relationship between organizational climate and commitment and effectiveness and also between support components, cooperative and friendly and organizational commitment and also between instructional components and effectiveness. Moreover, threatening and collaborative dimensions have more ability to predict organizational commitment and supportive, instructional, and threatening dimensions have more ability in predicting the effectiveness.