Organizational Climate of Rural and Urban Secondary Schools

Abstract

The study was carried out on a sample of 60 school students (30 urban and 30 rural) by using school organization climate questionnaire and concluded that school organizational climate and its dimensions are not independent of the location of the schools. The teachers of rural schools, with large number of open climate enjoy a harmonious working relationship with each other and at the same time enjoy a sense of accomplishment in their job in comparison to their urban counterpart. In these schools institutional heads show human treatment. Thus in the urban schools most of the teachers perceived the headmasters as bureaucratic and impersonal in nature. High scores of the urban schools in disengagement and alienation and production emphasis, and control dimensions in comparison to rural schools indicates lack of initiative, emotional distance between the head of the institution and the teachers of the urban schools.