Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the teachers’ values and their organizational citizenship behaviors. For this purpose, Schwartz’s (1992) list of values and the scale of organizational citizenship behaviors developed by Podsakaff and his colleagues have been applied to 407 teachers working in the schools of The District Education Directorate of Keçiören in Ankara. In the study correlation has been used to determine the relationship between the teachers’ values and their organizational citizenship behaviors statistically. At the end of the research it has been identified that there is a significant and positive relationship between the teachers’ values and their organizational citizenship behaviors. It has also been found that there are statistically significant relationships between the values collected in ten dimensions on Schwartz’s list and the five main behavioral dimensions comprising organizational citizenship behaviors. The strongest relationship has been observed between the universalism value group and civic virtue dimensions of behaviors based on the data obtained from the research. The findings of the study have been interpreted based on the literature.

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