A Study On Organisational Climate Of Government and Private Secondary School Students

Abstract

National School Climate Center, USA, defines school climate as the quality and character of school life. A sustainable, positive school climate fosters youth with development and learning necessary for a productive, contributory, and satisfying life in a democratic society. The study was conducted to examine the organisational climate of secondary school students of Leh ladakh. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw the required sample. The researcher selected 400 (200 Government and 200 Private) secondary school students studying in class 9^th and 10^th. School climate scale constructed and standardised by Dr. Shivendra Pratap Singh and Dr. Ali Imam (2015) was used to assess sample subjects. Descriptive research was used to carry out the present study. Statistical techniques including percentage statistics, mean (), standard deviation (SD) and t-test were used for analysis of data for quantitative method. The findings of the study reflects that the mean score (71.76) of private secondary school students are higher than the mean score (58.09) of Government secondary school students on organisational (school) climate scale. Results further revealed that there is significant difference between Government and private secondary school students on dimensions of open climate, autonomous climate, controlled climate, familiar climate, parental climate and closed climate.