Transformational-Transactional Leadership and Organizational Cynicism Perception: Physical Education and Sport Teachers Sample

Yeliz Eratlı Şirin,Özge Aydın,Fatma Pervin Bilir

doi:10.13189/ujer.2018.060920

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The purpose of this study was to find out the transformational and transactional leadership and organizational cynicism perceptions of physical education and sports teachers. The sample of the study consists of 70 physical education teachers chosen randomly who were working in schools of Turkey during the 2017-2018 Academic year. Personal information form, transformational and transactional leadership scale and organizational cynicism scale were used in the study. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data obtained from the study. Kurtosis and Skewness values were found to show whether the variables of the study were normally distributed and t-test was used for paired comparisons, while Anova test was used for the comparison of more than two independent groups. According to the results of the study physical education teachers were found to have higher perceptions of transformational leadership when compared with transactional leadership and they were found to have moderate levels of organizational cynicism. While significant difference was found between transformational and transactional leadership styles and the variable of gender; no significant difference was found between gender and organizational cynicism sub-dimensions. Another result of the study was that no significant difference was found between the variables of type of school teachers worked in, age and school graduated from and organizational cynicism sub dimensions, transformational and transactional leadership styles. Also significant difference was found between the variable of teachers' professional seniority and cognitive dimension, affective dimension and behavioural dimension.

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In the increasingly dynamic world of our day, organizations are faced with some changes that they feel the need to apply in their strategies, structures, operation processes and institution cultures
This study examines how leadership behaviours in schools are perceived by physical education teachers and the levels of organizational cynicism in schools
The main purpose of this study is to find out leadership styles and organizational cynicism perceptions of school directors in terms of demographic characteristics according to teachers of physical education

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In the increasingly dynamic world of our day, organizations are faced with some changes that they feel the need to apply in their strategies, structures, operation processes and institution cultures. At the beginning of 2000s, organizational cynicism began to be reflected in educational institutions [2, 3]. This situation emerged as a result of organizational structures of educational institutions including bureaucratic characteristics, achieving institutional success, realizing new quality and efficiency centered practices and as a result of the attitudes of employees towards the institution [4]. As in the functioning of all institutions, the presence of successful, efficient, innovative and entrepreneur leaders who are sensitive to the needs and problems of the society, who can update according to the needs of the time, who attain goals with a team spirit together with all the workers, mainly teachers, who are charismatic, well-informed, virtuous, visionary, entrepreneur, principled and hardworking in creating an understanding that can organize motivated individuals beyond expectation in order to realize the goals of the institution is vitally important in educational institutions [5]

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