An Examination of Perception of Science and Art Centers’ Teachers about Organizational Change and Organizational Dissent

Abstract

This research is carried out to examine the level of perceptions of teachers working in science and art centers about organizational change and organizational dissent. The population of the research consisted 1755 teachers working in 137 science and art centers in Turkey during 2019-2020 academic year. The data of the research were gathered by Teachers’ Attitude Scale for Organizational Cahnge scale developed by Kurşunoğlu and Tanrıöğen (2006) and Organizational Dissent Scale developed by Kassing (1998) and adapted to Turkish by Dagli (2015). In the data analysis process, SPSS was used. According to the results of the research, it was revealed that the perceptions of science and art centers’ teachers about organizational change and organizational dissent were on the medium level and while they showed significant differences in terms of the variables of gender, professional seniority and working status; they did not make any meaningful difference regarding the variables of marital status and graduation level. Also, a positive, meaningful and intermediate relationship between organizational change and organizational dissent perceptions of teachers. Accordingly, taking the findings of the research into consideration, various suggestions were presented at the last part of the research. Keywords: Organizational change, organizational dissent, Science and Art Center. Special Issue of Educational Sciences DOI: 10.7176/JSTR/6-06-09