Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science

This study aimed to assess organizational school climate of University of Eastern Philippines, Pedro Rebadulla Memorial Campus, Catubig Northern .Samar for school year: 2017-2018.  It aimed to identify the perception of faculty  towards organizational  climate in terms of:  Supportive Behavior; Directive Behavior ; Engaged Behavior;  Intimate Behavior; and Frustrated Behavior; determine  the standardized scores of organizational climate;  and determine  the general openness index  among employees in the workplace.  Moreover, this study was conducted to improve the organizational climate of the institution by getting or assessing the supportive, directive, engaged, and frustrated behavior from the respective respondents.

This study used a standardized questionnaire which is called the “Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ) adopted from Wayne K Hoy (1991). It is an instrument used to measure important aspects of teacher-teacher and dean-teacher interactions. Along with this, the study was designed with descriptive methodology which involves the analysis of the organizational climate of the university for the school year 2017-2018 and to determine the climate openness of the school specifically focusing on the dimensions or subtest covered by the Organizational Climate Questionnaire (OCDQ-RS).

This study found out that the organizational climate was higher than 84% of the schools from the normative samples, and the openness index of the organizational climate scored 380.9 The University falls below the average range for openness.  Finally, it is recommended that the University should conduct an intervention on how improve the openness index of the organizational climate.