Relationship between Directors' Philosophy of Education and Organizational Climate in Physical-Education Departments and Colleges in Iran

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between what physical-education deans and department heads hold as educational philosophy and the organizational climate in the universities of Iran. The samples selected for this study concisisted of 63 directors and 185 faculties. The instruments utilized were Philosophy Preferences Assessment Questionnaire developed by Wiles and Bondi and Susman and Deep's Organizational Climate Questionnaire. The former was completed by directors and the latter by faculty members. The results indicate that the most important philosophy held by directors in 22 departments and colleges was what is called Exprimentalism (33.6 ± 3.51) and the lowest was Idealism (26.9± 3.93). The average score of organizational climate in physical education climate was (43/2±11/47) and the highest score related to physical education department which was in Ardabil University was (55.4). The study did not find a significant relationship between philosophies of education and organizational climate and its subscales at P<.05.