The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between teachers’ perception of organizational cynicism and school administrators’ behaviours of favouritism. Since the research is a study that was carried out in order to detect the relationship between favouritism and cynicism, it is in correlational survey model. The sample of the research is constituted by 242 teachers who work in formal elementary schools in Van province. “Favouritism Scale in School Management” and “Organizational Cynicism Scale” were used to collect data for the study. Average, standard deviation, t-test, variance analysis, and regression, which are from descriptive statistics, were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the study, it was observed that teachers’ levels related to their perception of behaviours of favouritism of school administrators and their perception of organizational cynicism are low. Female teachers perform more cynical behaviours compared to male teachers. It has been...

Objective of this study is to reveal the level of perceived organizational justice and perceived organizational cynicism of vocational high school teachers and whether or not a correlation exists between perceived organizational justice and perceived organizational cynicism. The study has been performed in compliance with the review model. It was actualized with 286 teachers selected by random sampling from vocational high schools and technical Anatolian high schools in Bağcılar district of Istanbul in the academic years 2016-2017. In the study, "Organizational Justice Scale" and "Organizational Cynicism Scale" have been utilized in order to determine perceived organizational justice and perceived organizational cynicism, respectively, as data collection tool. In analyzing data thus collected, SPSS packaged software have been used, and arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation analysis have been made based on the data. According to data analysis results, it has been observed that overall perceived organizational justice and perceived organizational cynicism of vocational high school teachers is "moderate". A negative "high" level of significant correlations has been found between perceived organizational justice and perceived lower perceived organizational cynicism of vocational high school teachers.

This study determined the correlation between teachers’ perception of principals’ ethical leadership dimensions and their job commitment in state government owned public secondary schools in Anambra State. To this end, the study was guided by 4 research questions. The population consisted of 6,328 teachers in the 257 state government owned public secondary schools in the State. A sample of 672 teachers was drawn using multi-stage sampling procedure. Data were collected using two instruments; Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS) which was adapted from Yilmaz (2006) and Teachers’ Commitment Scale (TCS) adapted from Allen, Meyer and Smith (1993). The instruments were validated by three experts. Internal consistency reliability index of 0.75, 0.68, 0.71 and 0.74 were obtained for the four sections of ELS with an overall reliability index of 0.72 while 0.84 was obtained for TCM using Cronbach’s alpha method. Data analysis was done using Pearson’s correlation analysis for the research questions...

The purpose of this study is to identify the levels of teacher perceptions on psychological capital and the sub-dimensions with respect to gender, marital status, professional seniority, branch and educational status variables. The study was designed with the relational screening model. The study group consists of a total of 356 teachers working in 21 secondary school institutions in the center of Elazığ. The Psychological Capital scale was used in the study. According to the study results, psychological capital levels of teachers are at; “high level” for the psychological resilience, hope and self-efficacy dimensions, “moderate level” for the optimism dimension. It was observed that psychological capital levels of teachers significantly differ at resilience and hope dimensions for the gender variable; at all dimensions for the marital status variable; at hope and self-efficacy dimensions for the professional seniority. There were no significant differences in teacher opinions for t...

In this research, the relationships between organizational values, job satisfaction, organizational silence and affective commitment perceptions of managers and teachers working in schools were examined. The research data were collected from 706 school administrators and teachers. Four scales were used in the study: Management Scale According to Values, Teaching Satisfaction Scale, Organizational Silence Scale and Affective Commitment Scale. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was developed to determine the relationship between variables. The data obtained in the SEM show that all hypotheses of the study are accepted. According to these findings, organizational values positively affect job satisfaction and affective commitment. Organizational values have a negative effect on organizational silence. Job satisfaction has a positive effect affective commitment. Organizational silence negatively affects affective commitment. Job satisfaction increases the influence of organizational valu...

The current study examined the relationship between school effectiveness and teachers' demographic characteristics, organizational citizenship behaviors and stress, and the effects of teachers' demographic characteristics, organizational citizenship behaviors and stress levels on school effectiveness. Within the scope of the research, a causal comparison model was used and the opinions of 222 Turkish teachers who were working in the schools were evaluated. According to the results, school effectiveness was significantly and positively correlated with all dimensions of teachers organizational citizenship behaviors, and significantly and negatively correlated with stress In addition, it was found that the demographic characteristics were not a significant predictor of school effectiveness but only the seniority variable was a significant predictor of school effectiveness and it was found that the stress and dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior were significant pre...

The aim of this study is to determine teachers' self-efficacy perceptions and professional commitment levels; to examine the relationship between their self-efficacy perceptions and professional commitment levels and to determine whether their self-efficacy perceptions and professional commitment levels change according to various variables.

The aim of this study is to determine teachers' self-efficacy perceptions and professional commitment levels; to examine the relationship between their self-efficacy perceptions and professional commitment levels and to determine whether their self-efficacy perceptions and professional commitment levels change according to various variables.

This study examined metaphors teachers provided about what their concepts of spirituality were. It also examined these teachers’ perceptions regarding workplace spirituality, along with the qualities a spiritual organization requires. Based on the qualitative research method, the research was structured according to a phenomenological design. The sample studied was composed of two groups of teachers (N: 40) from another study conducted on the schools’ spiritual development program during the 2016-2017 academic year in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. The teachers from both groups volunteered to participate in different parts of this study and answered written questions about their personal metaphors to explain their concept of spirituality and what they think about the place of spirituality in schools, in light of their interpretations and definitions of workplace spirituality and spiritual qualities. While the first part of the study produced 18 different metaphors such as “water, knowing the self, energy, sea, space, math, oxygen, students, nucleus”, the second part included 34 perceptions about workplace spirituality on both a personal and a group level. The results show that the participants consider workplace spirituality as an important issue for self-identity, organizational identity, and growth.

As is known, business in Turkey and in the world, while serving and approaching the staff consider carefully being people oriented. Following this fact, as mentioned in various disciplines, there is an approach that people find themselves more productive in each environment where they feel themselves valuable. At this point, the term 'organizational cynicism' emerges. In this study, a meta-sysnthesis study has been conducted to approach the concept of organizational cynisim, which is a rising value. As it is known, organizational cynicism is a concept that can be discussed by using many areas such as sociology, psychology and organizational behavior. The aim of this study is to investigate how the concept of organizational cynicism evolves with the studies. For this purpose, doctoral theses, which are registered in the National Thesis Center about the concept of organizational cynicism, is discussed on a yearly basis with their research methods and objectives, which will make it possible to analyze how and in what direction to turn this concept in Turkey.