مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Relationship Between School Principals’ Communication Skills And Teachers’ General And Organizational Cynicism Attıtudes

Abstract :

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between school principals’ communication skills and teachers’ general and organizational cynicism attitudes according to perceptions of teachers. The population of the research consisted of 1206 teachers working at schools under the Ministry of Education in Giresun Province at 2014–2015 academic year. “Communication Skills Scale” developed by Wiemann (1977), “Organizational Cynicism Scale” developed by Brandes, Dharwadkar and Dean (1999), and “General Cynicism Scale” developed by Wrightsman (1992) were used in the study. Percentage, frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, correlation analysis, regression analysis were used for data analysis. According to teachers’ views, communication skills of school principals are “good” level. According to research results; the level of general cynicism of teachers was found “undecided” in the moderate range. Organizational cynicism levels of teachers at affective, behavioral dimensions and the total of all sub-dimensions were found “disagree” in low range, and at the cognitive dimension it was found “somewhat agree” at moderate level. There is a positive relationship at low level between teachers’ attitudes of general cynicism and organizational cynicism. In addition, it has been found that there is a significant negative relationship at moderate level between teachers’ views related to school principals’ communication skills and teachers’ attitudes of organizational cynicism. There is a significant negative relationship at low level between teachers’ views related to school principals’ communication skills and teachers’ attitudes of general cynicism. In addition, the communication skills of school principals significantly predict teachers’ attitudes of general and organizational cynicism.