Organizational Climate of Teacher Education Institutions in West Bengal in relation to Teacher Educators’ Motivation to Work

Abstract

The organizational climate has played a crucial role in an organization/institution resulting in high individual, organizational performance and specially motivation to work. Motivation is the process of stimulating people to action and to achieve a desired task and healthy organizational climate in an individual’s expressed career related goals or choices. The organizational climate is very much related with motivational aspects. Teacher educators play an important role in bringing about social transformation leading to national reconstruction. The quality of teachers and inputs, therefore become of paramount importance in the whole process of teaching and learning that are influenced by the organizational climate. 221 teacher educators were randomly selected for the study from West Bengal. Organizational Climate Inventory by Chattopadhyaya and Agarwal (2011) and self developed Teacher Educator’s Motivation to Work Scale (2016) was used in the study. It was revealed that the perception of male, self financed and organizational climate of rural teacher educator’s are better than the female, government and urban teacher educators. The female; government and urban teacher educators are highly motivated than the male; self finance and rural teacher educators on their work. There was no positive significant relationship between organizational climate as perceived by teacher educators and motivation to work of teacher educators.