A fairly stable set of job clusters was identified as contributing sources of satisfaction and frustration to early childhood edcators in center-based programs. These job clusters were: co-worker relations; supervisor relations; the nature of the work; pay and opportunities for promotion; and general working conditions. Related findings are…

Provides a brief overview of diverse approaches for defining and measuring work attitudes of early childhood educators and a conceptual framework for understanding how the many facets of job satisfaction interrelate. The model uses a social-ecological perspective of human behavior which stresses the dynamic interactive nature of person-environment…

This paper provides an overview of the dimensions of organizational climate as they relate to early childhood work environments. It reports the results of a study involving 629 early childhood workers representing 65 nonprofit and for-profit, center-based programs. The focus of the inquiry was to determine in what ways the 94 administrators and…