JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE IN RELATION TO COLLEGE TYPE AND GENDER

This study examines how gender and different college environm ents influence the job Satisfaction and Organizational Climate perceived by teacher educators. Job satisfaction scale (JSS) by Singh and Sharma & Organizational climate Scale (OCS) Pethe, Chaudhari and Dhar were given to 200 teacher educators working in ai ded and unaided colleges of education. From the results, it can be interpreted gender does not make any influence on the job satisfaction of teacher educators and in the perception of organizational climate. Secondly, the college type does not make any inf luence on the job satisfaction of teacher educators. Thirdly, teacher educators working in unaided colleges of education are having better relationships and they are more humane to each other and students as compared to their counterparts working in aided colleges. Fourthly , t he interaction between gender and college type together also do not make any influence on the perception of teacher educators about job satisfaction and organizational climate. Th e study implied for efforts for conducive relationships and humane environment in the aided institutions so that better environment can be created for teaching learning situations to flourish.