Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to determine, according to the perceptions of teachers working in primary and secondary schools, the authentic leadership behavior of school managers, in which direction and level teachers affect the levels of organizational confidence and organizational silence. The research is in the relational scan model. The universe of this research consists of a total of 3554 teachers who worked in 86 primary schools (1580 class teachers) and 65 secondary schools (1974 branch teachers) in the 2017-2018 academic year at the center of the city of Batman. As a data collection tool, the Authentic Leadership Scale was developed by Walumbwa, Avolio, Gardner, Wernsing and Peterson (2008) and adapted to the Turkish by Tabak, Sığrı, Arlı and Coşar (2010) was used. The "Organizational Trust Scale" developed by Yılmaz (2006) and the "Organizational Silence Scale" developed by Erenler (2010) were used. Imaginary statistics on variables, correlation analysis, SPSS 21, and research model are calculated using the AMOS 22 program for testing. As a result of the path analysis, the authentic leadership behavior of the school managers, according to the teachers’ perceptions, increases the organizational confidence of the teachers while reducing the levels of organizational silence. However, the research found that the teacher’s perception of the level of organizational silence was lower as the level of organizational confidence increased. Teachers' organizational confidence has been achieved as a result that school managers are a stronger contributor to organizational silence compared to their authentic leadership behavior.

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