The Relationship between Remote Working Model and Organizational Communication Satisfaction: A Study on Teachers

Yıl 2024, Sayı: 62, 161 - 178, 23.09.2024

Sinan Gürcüoğlu , Özlem Duğan , Barış Koç

https://doi.org/10.9779/pauefd.1326175

Öz

How organizations communicate with their employees plays an important role in the formation of perceptions about the organization. It is known that various factors affect the organizational communication satisfaction of employees. Especially during the Covid-19 pandemic process, there has been an increase in the application of the remote working model in organizations. The advantages and disadvantages of the remote working model which is intensively applied in educational organizations, are frequently discussed for organizations. In this study, the relationship between the remote working model and organizational communication satisfaction is revealed. Within the scope of the study, a questionnaire was applied over the internet to teachers working in public schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. It was found that there was a weak–medium strength and positive significant relationship between the participants' communication satisfaction levels, and the fact that they could communicate smoothly compared to the normal working order that their ties with the school did not decrease and that the difficulties they faced did not increase. In the study, it was observed that males had higher levels of communication satisfaction than females in various dimensions and scale averages.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Communication, organizational communication, communication satisfaction, Distance study

Uzaktan Çalışma Modeli ile Örgütsel İletişim Doyumunun İlişkisi: Öğretmenler Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Öz

Örgütlerin çalışanlarla ne şekilde iletişim kurduğu örgüt ile ilgili algıların oluşmasında önemli rol oynamaktadır. Çalışanların örgütsel bağlılıklarının artması, örgütteki iletişim doyumunu ne düzeyde sağladıkları ile ilgili olmakla birlikte, çeşitli faktörlerin çalışanların örgütsel iletişim doyumunu etkilediği bilinmektedir. Özellikle Covid-19 pandemi sürecinde uzaktan çalışma modelinin örgütlerde uygulanmasında artış yaşanmıştır. Eğitim örgütlerinde yoğun olarak uygulanan uzaktan çalışma modelinin örgütler için avantaj ve dezavantajları sıklıkla tartışılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada uzaktan çalışma modeli ile örgütsel iletişim doyumunun ilişkisi ortaya konulmaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı’na bağlı resmi okullarda görev yapan öğretmenlere internet üzerinden bir anket uygulanmıştır. 290 öğretmenin katılımı ile gerçekleştirilen çalışma sonucunda elde edilen veriler, SPSS 23 programı ile analiz edilmiştir. Çalışmada, katılımcıların %56.9’unun uzaktan çalışma sırasında okul ile bağlarının azalmadığı, %86.9’unun normal çalışma düzenine göre çalışmayı engelleyici zorluklarla karşılaşmadıkları ve %63.5’inin ise iletişimle ilgili sorun yaşamadığı bulgulanmıştır. Katılımcıların uzaktan çalışma ile ilgili olarak; gerek normal çalışma düzenine göre sorunsuz iletişim kurabilmeleri, gerek okul ile bağlarının azalmaması ve gerekse karşılaştıkları zorlukların artmaması durumları ile iletişim doyumu düzeyleri arasında zayıf - orta kuvvette ve pozitif yönlü anlamlı ilişki bulunduğu anlaşılmıştır. Araştırmada erkeklerin kadınlara göre çeşitli boyutlarda ve ölçek ortalamasında iletişim doyumu düzeylerinin daha yüksek olduğu görülmüştür.

Anahtar Kelimeler

iletişim, örgütsel iletişim, iletişim doyumu, uzaktan çalışma

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