Abstract:

Organizatonal commitment is the teellings and relation employess to the organization they work. It is seen that organizational commitment is affected by various factors and various factors are influenced by organizational commitment. In recent years, organizational cynicism and organizational dissent are observed as new topic areas organizational behaviour. In this regard, theachers’ cynicism and dissent perceptions are considered it is seen that to be important. In this framework, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between primary school teachers’ organizational commitment and organizational cynicism and organizational dissent perceptions.The population of the study is formed by primary school teachers (n:219) working in the city center of Bolu in 2012-2013 academic year. The data were collected through “Organizational Commitment Scale” developed by Meyer and Allen (1984) adapted into Turkish by Boylu, Pelit and Güçer (2007) and “Organizational Cynicism Scale” developed by Brandes, Dharwadkar ve Dean (1999) adapted into Turkish by Kalağan (2009) and Dissent Behaviours Sub-Scale of “Organizational Dissent Scale” developed by Özdemir (2010). To analyze the data, SPSS 16.0 program was used and descriptive statistics as; frequency, percentage, meanscore, standart deviation and correlation, were used. The findings of the study revealed correlation between primary school teachers’ organizational commitment and organizational cynicism and organizational dissent perceptions. A high negative correlation was found between the organizational commitment and organizational cynicism perceptions and a moderate negative correlation was found between organizational commitment and organizational dissent perceptions of primary school teachers.

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