Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to determine effect levels between teachers' perceptions regarding organizational culture, organizational trust and organizational alienation variables and to determine their predictions about these variables and levels of accountability. The research is based on the relative screening model. The sample group is consisted of 2219 teachers who worked for primary, secondary and high schools located in Rize town center and all counties during 2013 - 2014 school year. organizational culture scale developed by Demirtaş and Ekmekyapar (2012), organizational trust scale developed by Yılmaz (2005) and organizational alienation scale developed by Eryılmaz (2010) are used as data collection tools on the research. The study also calculated frequency and percentage values regarding demographic properties of the teachers. Furthermore, structural equation modeling is used for the purpose of determining the relationship between variables of the study, namely organizational culture, organizational trust and organizational alienation. The results of this study revealed that organizational culture has negative predictions about organizational alienation and positive as well as significant predictions about organizational trust. Besides, it is determined that organizational trust has negative and significant predictions about organizational alienation. Inaddition to organizational trust has partial mediating effect between organizational culture and organizational alienation.

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