TY - JOUR ID - 60969 TI - How teachers and school administrators of Kurdistan province perceive teachers' well-fare JO - School Administration JA - JSA LA - en SN - 2538-4724 AU - Mohamadi, Salah adin AU - Azizi, Nematolah AU - Gholami, khalil AU - Jafari, Parivash AD - Ph.D. Student of Educational Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran AD - Professor of Education, Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj -Iran AD - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 224 EP - 242 KW - Material and mental Welfare KW - World Standards of Welfare KW - teachers KW - Welfare DO - N2 - This study aims to investigate teachers' perception of their own welfare, identifying its affecting factors and suggesting mechanisms to improve teachers' welfare. As a an exploratory mixed method research both qualitative (grounded theory and quantitative (survey and correlational study) were applied simultaneously. Participants for qualitative study composed of 12 teachers in Sannadaj who were selected purposefully using theoretical sampling. Moreover, using cluster sampling 416 teachers were selected for the survey study. In order to collect data, deep interview and questionnaire were applied. The qualitative findings showed that from the participants view point welfare is a comprehensive concept and has material and mental dimensions which can be influenced by political (state policy), social (values, attitude), economic (quantitative and cost attitude), organizational (management and process), individual (teachers' role), professional (professional identity) factors. The qualitative findings also revealed that teachers welfare can be improved through comprehensive social efforts, teachers own will and efforts, recognizing and supporting teachers professional association. Quantitative findings showed a significant relation between teachers’ gender and material and mental welfare (t = 0.498). Additionally, positive relationship between teachers’ level of education and their perception of welfare was confirmed (t = 2.55). salary and incomes are among the most important welfare indicators. Furthermore, teachers have pointed out that the teachers’ welfare can be improved by creating a quality mechanism in education. UR - https://jsa.uok.ac.ir/article_60969.html L1 - https://jsa.uok.ac.ir/article_60969_646da89fc7b76c9c4a091baf0e2b6df6.pdf ER -