Work Culture of Government Secondary School Teachers in Ladakh

Abstract

This study is an attempt to compare work culture based on gender and locality. The data was collected from randomly selected 600 teachers working in government secondary school from the districts of Ladakh by administering the Teachers' Work Culture of Manju, N. D. and Sheela, G. (2013). The findings indicated that most of teachers reported a high work culture exist in schools. Furthermore, a significant difference in the overall and all dimensions of work culture of male and female teachers found. Additionally, a significant difference is also found in the overall and team work and adjustability, pro-activeness, obligation, leadership and work scheduling dimensions of work culture except role clarity between the teachers from rural and urban locality. Furthermore, the findings revealed that female teachers and teachers from rural localities reported significantly high work culture as compared to male secondary school teachers.

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