Promoting Values for Teachers’ Performance from Different Age Groups in School Organizational Culture in Yala Primary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

This research aimed to study levels of characteristics and organizational culture as perceived by teachers from different age groups; find predictor variables of the characteristics of teachers from different age groups affecting organizational culture; and propose performance support values for teachers from different age groups in school organizational culture in Yala Primary Educational Service Area Office (YPESAO). The sample was 195 teachers from schools in YPESAO. Four Likert-scale research questionnaires were used to the different age groups of the sample: a baby-boomer questionnaire with the reliability of .843, an X-generation questionnaire with the reliability of .859, a Y-generation questionnaire with the reliability of .786, and an organizational culture perception questionnaire with the reliability of .940. The key informants were 11 principals and teachers. The data analysis methods used were Mean, Standard Deviation, Stepwise Multiple Regression and content analysis.
The findings revealed that 1) the teacher characteristics of the baby-boomer generation was overall at the highest level. The characteristics of the X generation and of the Y generation were overall equally at a high level. 2) The teachers’ perception on the organizational culture was overall at a high level. 3) Career experience and professional knowledge of the baby-boomer-generation teachers made them well-adjusted and at ease in the organizational culture whilst the teachers of the X generation had outstanding adaptability and friendliness, and the Y generation showed great thinking process skills and friendliness. These characteristics of the three generations working together affected the school organizational culture as shown statistically at the level of 0.01. 4) Promoting the values of sharing and colearning among teachers from different age groups should be continuously encouraged in school, positive outlook and admiration, and reasonable caution based on facts.