Relationship between Sources of Power and Organizational Climate in Middle Schools of Zahedan City, Iran

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between principal’s sources of power and organizational climate of guidance schools in Zahedan: From teacher’s point of view. In this study descriptive- correlation method of research were employed, And sample of 210 teachers were selected by clustered sampling method out of all teachers of guidance schools in Zahedan. To collect related data two questionnaires were employed, first one to measure manager's source of power and the second questionnaire to measure organizational climate of guidance schools. Reliability obtained for questionnaires were α=.86 and α=.84 respectively. Descriptive and inferential techniques of statistic were used to analyses the collected data. The descriptive findings of the research revealed that the dominant sources of power employed by the managers are the legal power. Among the dimensions of organizational climate, the highest mean was dedicated to the team spirit features as well. The data deductive analysis showed that there is a positive and significant relation between four dimensions of principals sources of power and organizational climate, The study did not finded any significant relation between the coercing power and school organization climate , also, step-wise regression analysis indicated that, from five damnations of principals’ sources of power, the authority source, expert and reward power predict the most changes concerned with the organization atmosphere.

کلیدواژه ها:

Sources of power ، Organizational climate ، teachers ، guidance school