Özet:

The purpose of this study is to study the opposite behavior of teachers in terms of various variables – gender, civil status, union membership status, educational status, working time. The research was carried out with 350 teachers in the secondary education institutions associated with the Ministry of National Education. The data was collected using the organizational opposition scale consisting of 10 expression measures, including horizontal opposition, vertical opposition and altered opposition dimensions. According to the purpose of the study, identifying statistics were used independently from the parametric tests, the sampling t-test and the variance analysis. The results of the analysis showed that the opposite behavior localized among the variables in which the average difference tests were applied was higher than the average differences in both the vertical and the horizontal opposite behavior of teachers in almost all the average difference tests. It also revealed that men are horizontal and vertical according to gender; those who are member of trade unions according to the status of union membership are horizontal; and those who have 3-5 years of work experience have a higher level of opposition behavior than those who have 15 years of experience and over. The findings showed that the district teachers’ opposition behavior in which the research was carried out was not at a level that could benefit the organization. This situation can be explained by the low level of tolerance of teachers to the opposition behavior.