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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between teachers’ quality of work life and their organizational value perceptions and to analyze it in terms of some variables. The study uses the research designs of correlational research and survey. The study was conducted with the participation of 568 teachers in secondary and primary education institution in the central districts of Kocasinan, Melikgazi and Talas in Kayseri. In order to determine the quality of work life of teachers, “the Quality of Work Life Scale” was used, whereas “the Management by Values Scale” was used to determine their organizational value perceptions. Descriptive and parametric difference analyses were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the study, according to the teachers' perceptions of their quality of work life, schools had the most social integration, safe and healthy working conditions, while they had the least appropriate and fair response, social responsibility and democratic environment dimensions. As organizational values, the teachers mostly considered integrity, respect for people and justice, and they adopted religious values the least. A moderate positive relationship was found between the participants’ quality of work life and their organizational values. It was found that the male teachers had higher democratic environment, safe and healthy working conditions and appropriate and fair provision perception levels than the female teachers, and the form primary teachers were found to have higher perceptions on the development of the employee capacity, safe and healthy working conditions, social responsibility and social integration than the branch teachers. It was found that the perception of the primary school teachers towards the overall living space and development of the capacity of employees was higher than the teachers working at Anatolian high schools.

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