THE INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CYNICISM AND ORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE BEHAVIOURS OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

The aim of this research is to investigate the opinions of elementary school and secondary school teachers regarding the organizational cynicism and organizational silence behaviours in terms of different variables. at the same time, it was aimed to determine the relationship between the organizational cynicism behaviours and organizational silence behaviours of the elementary and secondary school teachers. in accordance with this purpose, 343 elementary and secondary school teachers working in yakutiye district of erzurum province were reached through the simple random sampling method in the academic year of 2016-2017. the research is in the relational screening model. the organizational cynicism scale which was developed by brandes, dharwadkar and dean (1999) and which was validated by kalağan (2009) and the organizational silence scale developed by kahveci and demirtas (2013a) were used to collect the research data. spss 22.0 package program was used for the analysis of the obtained data. in the analysis of the data, frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation values were calculated; t test, one-way analysis of variance, correlation and regression analyzes were carried out. according to the results of the research, there was no significant difference between the opinions of elementary and secondary school teachers regarding the organizational cynicism and the organizational silence behaviors based on gender, school types and branches. it was found that there was a moderate and positive significant relationship between the organizational cynicism (the sum of sub-dimensions) and the organizational silence attitudes (the sum of sub-dimensions) of the primary and secondary school teachers. it was also found that the organizational cynicism was significantly predicted along with the school environment, feelings, and source of silence, school manager and the isolation variables.