Örgütsel Demokrasi ve Örgütsel Muhalefet İlişkisi: Beyaz Yakalılar Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Year 2017, Volume: 46 Issue: 1, 117 - 132, 01.05.2017

Lale Oral Ataç , Sevinç Köse

Abstract

Örgütsel demokrasi araştırmacıları ifade özgürlüğü ortamının önemini; örgütsel muhalefet araştırmacıları ise muhalefetin demokratik bir iş ortamının gereği olduğunu vurgulamaktadırlar. Bununla birlikte, bu iki kavramı bir arada ele alan ve birbirleri ile ilişkilerini açıklayan görgül araştırma verilerinin yetersiz olduğu görülmektedir. Örgütsel demokrasi olgusunu ölçmeye yönelik zorluklar, bu alanda yapılan nicel araştırmaların sayısının da sınırlı kalmasına neden olmaktadır. Bu araştırma, çalışanların örgütsel demokrasi algıları ile örgütsel muhalefet davranışları arasındaki ilişkiyi açıklamayı amaçlamaktadır. Araştırma kapsamında, örgütsel demokrasiyi çok boyutlu olarak ölçmek üzere bir ölçek uyarlama çalışması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Örgütsel demokrasi ve örgütsel muhalefet ölçeklerinin yanı sıra, örneklemin demografik yapısını belirlemeye yönelik soruları içeren bir anket formu ile 387 kişilik bir örnekleme ulaşılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçları, örgütsel demokrasi ile örgütsel muhalefet olguları arasında pozitif yönlü anlamlı ilişki olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Bir diğer önemli bulgu ise örgütsel muhalefetin örgütsel demokrasiyi açıklamada anlamlı bir değişken olduğudur. Buna göre, araştırma sonuçları, bir örgütte muhalefet düzeyinin artmasının, demokrasi algısının artmasına neden olduğunu istatistiksel olarak ispatlamaktadır.

Keywords

Örgütsel Demokrasi, Örgütsel Muhalefet, Beyaz Yakalılar

The Relationship Between Organizational Democracy and Organizational Dissent: A Research on White Collar Workers

Abstract

Researchers of organisational democracy emphasize the importance of freedom of speech, while researchers of organizational dissent underline the necessity of dissent for democracy in the workplace. However, due to the difficulty of measuring organizational democracy, the number of empirical studies which contextualise these two concepts and reveal the relationship between them has been observed to be insufficient. Insufficiency of such empirical studies in the field results from difficulty of measuring organisational democracy. This study aims to explain the relationship between the organizational democracy perception of employees and their behaviors that expose organizational dissent. A scale that is designed for a multi dimensional measurement of organizational democracy was adaptated within the scope of the study. Scales for measuring organizational democracy and organizational dissent with a demographic survey form were given to a sample of 387 participants. Findings of the study show that there is a significant positive relationship between organizational democracy and organizational dissent. As to another important finding, the study found that organizational dissent is a significant variable to explain organizational democracy. In this regard, the study statistically proves that an increase in the level of organizational dissent causes an increase in the perception of democracy in a workplace.

Keywords

Organizational Democracy, Organizational Dissent, White Collar Workers

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