The Opinions of the Teachers Related to the Causes of Organizational Dissent

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find out the reasons of teachers’ dissent against school administration
in secondary schools. The research was in survey model. The research population consisted of teachers working
in the public secondary schools located in the city center of Mardin during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Randomly selected 191 teachers composed the sample. The datum of the study were collected through a
questionnaire of 23 items taken from “Dissent’s Reasons” section of “Scale of Organizational Dissent” which
was developed by Özdemir (2010). The results derived from the data are as follows; (1) Teachers "occasionally"
see the administrator's behaviors as something to dissent for. Teachers mostly dissent for “managers’ taking
decision concerning teachers without consulting him/her" whereas teachers rarely dissent for “administrator's
political disclosure.” (2) A significant difference is not determined between the mean of teachers’ opinions about
the causes of organizational dissent for the variables of education level, seniority, gender, union membership, the
number of teachers in the school