Quality of Working Life of Teachers at Mahasarakham University Demonstration School

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to investigate the quality of working life for the teachers at the Demonstration School in Maha Sarakham province in order to compare differences in working life for the teachers and study the relationship between the organization atmosphere and the quality of working life for teachers at Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (Secondary). The population comprised 51 teachers by purposive samplings. The instruments employed in the study consisted of questionnaires, interviews and the statistics including average mean, percentage, t-test, f-test, and Person Product Moment Correlation Coefficient were employed to analyze and interpret the data. The result of the study revealed that the teachers at Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (Secondary) had perspectives towards the factors pertaining to school atmosphere at all levels of very good as a whole. Similarly, perspectives towards the quality of working life for the teachers at Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (Secondary) were by and large at the levels of good excluding the payment and equity which were at the levels of fair in general. The study also showed that individual factors including sex, age, working period, education level, salary towards the quality of working life for the teachers at Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (Secondary) were not different no matter the factors were considered alone or overall. Excluding we found different departments were Mathematics department, Arts department, Students development department ect. Furthermore, the factors pertaining to organization atmosphere engaged in both organizational structures and goals had positive relationship and effects on the quality of working life at significant statistics at the level of 0.05