An Examination of the Relationship Between Toxic Leadership Behaviors of School Administrators and Teachers Organizational Commitment

By doing this research, it is aimed to reveal the relationship between toxic leadership behaviors of school administrators and teachers’ organizational commitment. 291 teachers have attended in the research who are in primary and secondary schools in Rize within the scope of correlation research, one of the scan relational approaches. In this research, to gather data which is used for determining demographic information of the teachers, “Teachers’ organizational commitment scale”, “Toxic leadership scale” and “Occupational Information form” are used. While analyzing data, correlation analysis, regression analysis, t-Test, One Way Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA), U Test of Mann Whitney, H Test of Kruskal Wallis are used. At the end of the research, it is concluded that teachers perceptions of toxic leadership are low and levels of organizational commitment are medium. On the other hand, it is detected that a meaningful high level negative relationship between these two variables. While teachers perceptions of toxic leadership and organizational commitment differ according to the age variable, it is observed that it does not differ according to these variables such as gender, marital status, branch and years of service. Besides, it is revealed that toxic leadership behavior is an important conclusive of organizational commitment.