Ortaöğretim Kurumlarında Örgütsel Sessizliğe İlişkin Öğretmen Görüşleri (Ankara İli Çankaya İlçesi Örneği)

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the organizational silence level of teachers working at public highschools in the district of Çankaya in Ankara province and to examine whether the level of silence differs in terms of demographic variables (gender, age, years of service, duration of service at present school, education level and professional branch variable). This research is a descriptive study in the form of survey model. The study population consists of 3600 teachers who thought in public highschools in Çankaya district of Ankara province during 2016-2017 academic year. The sample was determined by simple random sampling method. Research sample is composed of 562 teachers. “Organizational Silence Scale” developed by Kahveci ve Demirtaş (2013) which was tested in the sense of validity and reliability and consists of 18 articles and 5 subdimensions was used as data collection tool. SPSS 20 and Lisrel 8.80 softwares were used for data analysis. A “moderate” level organizational silence is detected among teachers as a result of the research. It is seen that organizational silence level of teachers is “moderate” considering school environment, source of silence and isolation, and “high” considering emotion and administrator subdimensions. When average of subdimensions is analyzed, the highest organizational silence level is determined in administrator subdimension, and it was followed by emotion, isolation, source of silence and school environment respectively. Research showed no statistically significant difference in organizational silence level of teachers in total and emotion, source of silence, administrator, isolation subdimensions compared to gender and age variables, where a significant difference was determined in school environment. The study did not show statistically significant difference in organizational silence level of teachers in school environment, emotion, source of silence and administrator subdimensions compared to years of service variable. But, showed a significant difference in total and isolation subdimension compared to years of service variable. Also the study determined no statistically significant difference in organizational silence level of teachers in total and in all subdimensions compared to years of service in present school, level of education and professional branch variables.