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Today, almost every institution is faced with immoral behaviors or immoral situations. The failure to resolve immoral behaviors or immoral situations in the educational institutions can affect the level of the job satisfaction of the educators. The aim of the research is to evaluate the perceptions of teachers in secondary schools on whistleblowing and job satisfaction according to different variables and to determine the relationship between whistleblowing and job satisfaction. The research is a descriptive study conducted with the participation of 223 teachers working in secondary schools in Tekirdağ and Erzurum in the 2018-2019 academic year. In this study, data tools were ‘Whistleblowing Scale’ and ‘Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale’. The latter data collection tool consists of three parts. In the first part, there are expressions for demographic information, in the second part there are 16 items to measure their views on whistleblowing, and in the third part there are 20 items aimed at measuring teachers' job satisfaction. SPSS 21.0 package program was used for analyzing the obtained data. Parametric tests were used since the data had normal distribution. For two-group comparisons, Independent Groups t-Test was used and One-Way Anova was used for more than two-group comparisons. Pearson Correlation test was used for stating the relationship between whistleblowing and job satisfaction. Tukey test was used to indicate the differences between the groups in One-Way Anova tests. The level of significance was accepted as p<0.05 in this study. As a result of the analyzes, it was stated that; gender, age, marital status, region that the teachers grew up and branch factors have not been constituted a meaningful difference in whistleblowing. It was stated that; gender, age, marital status factors have not been constituted a meaningful difference in job satisfaction while it was stated that the difference in region of grown and branch variables were meaningful.

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