The purpose of this study was to provide basic information for improving organizational climate of public kindergarten by exploring the difficulties in public kindergarten teachers' performing administrative tasks and identifying the impacts of these ...
The purpose of this study was to provide basic information for improving organizational climate of public kindergarten by exploring the difficulties in public kindergarten teachers' performing administrative tasks and identifying the impacts of these administrative difficulties and the teachers' demands on reforming the difficulties
For this purpose, 5 public kindergarten teachers who had teaching experience more than five years participated in this research and a qualitative study was conducted through collecting data such as the teachers' job diaries and in-depth interviews from March, 2010 to September, 2010.
Research questions:
1. What are the public kindergarten teachers' difficulties in performing administrative work?
2. What are the impacts of the difficulties in performing administrative work ?
3. What are the public kindergarten teachers' demands on improving the difficulties in performing administrative work?
The results of the present study were summarized as follows.
First, the public kindergarten teachers perceived that they had administrative difficulties in the organizational system, organizational performance, organizational relationship.
In terms of the difficulties in organizational system, public kindergarten teachers perceived that the difficulties came from the top-down organizational system, the unclear work responsibilities between teachers and administrative office, the complex approval system for work plan, and the product-oriencted administrative system for show.
In terms of the difficulties in the organizational performance, the public kindergarten teachers perceived that the difficulties came from the lack of support for human resource, the heavy workload, the lack of training for the new administrative system, and the inefficient work plan.
In terms of the difficulties in the organizational relationship, the public kindergarten teachers perceived that the difficulties came from other faculty's indifference to the kindergarten teachers, the lack of administrators' understanding of early childhood education, and the uncooperative attitudes of the administrative office.
Second, the public kindergarten teachers perceived that the administrative difficulties had negative impacts on their instruction, their morale, emotion, and identity as a teacher, and their relationships with children's parents.
Third, the public kindergarten teachers perceived that in order to figuring out the administrative difficulties, it would be necessary to provide additional supports for human resources such as administrative staff, teaching assistant, and substitute teachers for kindergarten. They also perceived that it would be necessary to provide continuous professional development opportunities such as club activities, workshops, and in-service education for administrators. Finally, they perceived that it would be necessary to establish one-stop administrative system and electronic approval systems for their efficient administrative work.