Profesyonel Etik Standartları İle Örgütsel Vatandaşlık Davranışı Arasındaki İlişkide Örgütsel Özdeşleşmenin Rolü: Ortaokul Öğretmenleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma (The Role of Organizational Identification in the Relationship Between Professional Ethical Standards and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Sample of the Secondary School Teachers)

Abstract

Purpose – The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers' level of adoption of professional ethical standards, organizational citizenship behavior and organizational identification. Design/methodology/approach – The data used in the study consist of 214 secondary school teachers working in Bayburt. The questionnaire form was distributed to the teachers by hand and made face to face. Frequency analysis, reliability analysis and correlation analysis were performed by using SPSS program. After the confirmatory factor analysis was performed with the help of AMOS program, direct and indirect relations were determined by bootstrap method and the fundamental model was analyzed by structural equation modeling. Findings – According to the findings of the study, it was shown that the level of adopting professional ethical standards increased organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, it was seen that organizational citizenship behavior increased teachers' perception of organizational identification. In addition, it has been found that organizational identification has a partial mediating role in the effect of teachers' professional ethical standards on organizational citizenship behaviors. Discussion – In this study, it was shown that teachers' perceived professional ethics standards positively and positively affected organizational citizenship behavior and also organizational identification perceptions were positively and significantly affected within this relationship. The other result is that professional ethical standards have both direct and indirect effects on organizational citizenship behavior and organizational citizenship in a model with organizational identification. Thus, it is thought that this study can shed light on future studies about teachers.