The Relationship between Secondary School Teachers’ Perceptions of Organizational Politics and Their Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

Year 2020, Volume: 35 Issue: 1, 120 - 135, 31.01.2020

Osman Tayyar Çelik , Mehmet Üstüner

Abstract

In this research, it is aimed to reveal the relationships among, secondary school teachers’ perceptions of organizational politics, organizational dependence and organizational citizenship behaviours. 2972 teachers teaching in Malatya’s central districts (Battalgazi and Yeşilyurt) during 2017-2018 academic year constitute the universe of the research. 856 of whom were defined through stratified sampling method as the sample of the research. In this relational screening model based research, a model was suggested by researchers for the relationship between variables and this model was tested by SEM analyse. At the end of the research; its understood that the perceptions of organizational politics of secondary school teachers’ predict their “organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviours significantly in a negative way”, estimate “organizational commitment’ and organizational citizenship behaviours significantly in a positive way” and have a partial procuration role between organizational commitment perceptions of organizational politics associated with organizational citizenship behaviour. Besides, it is comfirmed that the research explains nearly the %59 of the variance of secondary school teachers’ perception of organizational politics perception and organizational commitment on organizational citizenship behaviours.

Keywords

Perception of organizational politics, political behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, teacher

Ortaokul Öğretmenlerinin Örgütsel Politika Algıları ile Örgütsel Bağlılıkları ve Örgütsel Vatandaşlık Davranışları Arasındaki İlişki

Abstract

Bu araştırmada, ortaokul öğretmenlerinin örgütsel politika algılarıyla, örgütsel bağlılıkları ve örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışları arasındaki ilişkilerin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın evrenini, 2016-2017 eğitim-öğretim yılında Malatya ili merkez ilçelerinde (Battalgazi ve Yeşilyurt) görev yapan 2.972 ortaokul öğretmeni oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın örneklemini ise tabakalı örnekleme yöntemi ile belirlenen 856 öğretmen oluşturmaktadır. İlişkisel tarama modelindeki bu araştırmada değişkenler arasındaki ilişkiye yönelik araştırmacılar tarafından bir model önerilmiş ve yapısal eşitlik modellemesi (YEM) ile test edilmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda ortaokul öğretmenlerinin örgütsel politika algılarının örgütsel bağlılıklarını ve örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışlarını negatif yönde anlamlı bir şekilde yordadığı, ortaokul öğretmenlerinin örgütsel bağlılıklarının örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışlarını pozitif yönde anlamlı bir şekilde yordadığı ve örgütsel bağlılığın örgütsel politika algısı ile örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışı arasında kısmi aracılık rolüne sahip olduğu sonuçlarına ulaşılmıştır. Ayrıca ortaokul öğretmenlerinin örgütsel politika algısı ile örgütsel bağlılıklarının örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışlarındaki varyansın yaklaşık %59’unu açıkladığı tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Örgütsel politika algısı, politik davranış, örgütsel vatandaşlık davranışı, örgütsel bağlılık, öğretmen

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