The Relationships between Organizational Learning Level, School Effectiveness and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

The aim of this research is to determine the relationships between organizational learning levels of high schools; organizational citizenship behavior of managers and teachers and effective school characteristics of them based on the opinions of managers and teachers. The population of the research consists of managers and teachers serving at high schools in Diyarbakir city, Turkey, during 2013-2014 educational year. According to findings of the research, perception of managers and teachers on the learning school and effective school characteristic is at average level and their perception on organizational citizenship behavior is at high level. Learning school characteristic of high schools is a significant predictor of managers’ and teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior and as well as effective school characteristic of high schools. Moreover, organizational citizenship behavior of managers and teachers are predictors of effective school characteristic

THE EFFECT OF TEACHERS' ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS AND STRESS LEVELS ON SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS

The current study examined the relationship between school effectiveness and teachers' demographic characteristics, organizational citizenship behaviors and stress, and the effects of teachers' demographic characteristics, organizational citizenship behaviors and stress levels on school effectiveness. Within the scope of the research, a causal comparison model was used and the opinions of 222 Turkish teachers who were working in the schools were evaluated. According to the results, school effectiveness was significantly and positively correlated with all dimensions of teachers organizational citizenship behaviors, and significantly and negatively correlated with stress In addition, it was found that the demographic characteristics were not a significant predictor of school effectiveness but only the seniority variable was a significant predictor of school effectiveness and it was found that the stress and dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior were significant predictors of school effectiveness.  Article visualizations

Presenteeism iyi midir kötü müdür? Okullarda fenomenolojik bir çalışma

The study aims to holistic and comprehensive analyse presenteeism according to the perceptions of education workers who experience it more frequently and reveal the relationship of presenteeism with the sociological, psychological, and theological dynamics of Turkish society. The study was conducted with a phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group consists of teachers and school administrators working in Elazig, a province in Turkey. It was determined that educators can voluntarily decide to work when they are not feeling well due to motivations such as a sense of responsibility, conscience, commitment to work, public service, and religious sensitivity. In addition, some participants stated that due to organisational pressure, economic difficulties, and workload, employees make a forced decision to work when they are not well. Finally, in addition to the negative results of presenteeism, positive results, which are rarely seen in the literature, were also obtained. Therefore, the experience of presenteeism should be evaluated considering its positive and negative effects on organizations and employees.Bu çalışma presenteesmi daha sık deneyimleyen eğitim çalışanlarının algılarına göre bütüncül ve kapsamlı bir şekilde analiz etmeyi ve olguyu Türk toplumunun sosyolojik, psikolojik ve teolojik dinamikleriyle ilişkisini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Araştırma, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden fenomenolojik desende yürütülmüştür. Çalışma grubu Türkiye'nin Elazığ ilinde görev yapan öğretmen ve okul yöneticilerinden oluşmaktadır. Katılımcıların sorumluluk duygusu, vicdan, işe bağlılık, kamu hizmeti, dini duyarlılık gibi motivasyonlar nedeniyle kendilerini iyi hissetmedikleri durumlarda gönüllü olarak çalışmaya karar verebildikleri belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca bazı katılımcılar örgütsel baskı, ekonomik zorluklar ve iş yükü nedeniyle iyi olmadıkları zamanlarda zorunlu bir şekilde çalışmaya karar verdiklerini ifade etmiştir. Son olarak, Presenteism'in olumsuz sonuçlarına ek olarak, literatürde nadiren görülen olumlu sonuçları da öngördüğü belirlenmiştir. Dolayısıyla presenteeism deneyimi, örgütler ve çalışanlar üzerindeki olumlu ve olumsuz etkileri dikkate alınarak değerlendirilmelidir

Faculty Members' Digital Footprint Experiences and Digital Footprint Awareness

This study aimed to reveal the relationships between faculty members' gender and Internet usage time (daily usage time and years of use), their use of online environments, their digital footprint experiences, and digital footprint awareness. For this purpose, the relational research model was adopted in the study. The sample of the study consists of 398 faculty members working at a state university in Turkey. Descriptive and relational analyzes were made for the analysis of the data. Mean, percentage, and frequency analysis were used in de - scriptive analysis. For the relational analysis, the association rule, one of the data mining methods, was used. At the end of the study, it was found that the faculty members' digital footprint awareness was high, and their negative digital environment experiences were low. It was observed that the digital footprint experiences and awareness of female faculty members were significantly higher than that of male faculty members. It was also found that faculty members mostly use online chat tools, social networks, e-mail services, and least blogs, learning management systems, and Wiki. Faculty members who indicated that digital media posts reflect their real thoughts stated that they do not regret these posts, and after checking their writing, they are sharing them in digital media. Finally, researchers were suggested to examine the change in digital footprint aware- ness according to regional and cultural differences