Investigation of the relationship between perceptioned organizational climate and teachers 'levels of organizational creativity and organizational cinism

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational climate and teachers' levels of organizational creativity and organizational cynicism. In the research, relational screening model was used. The population of the study consists of 1974 teachers working in 65 secondary schools in Batman city center in 2017-2018 academic year. The sample of the study consists of 756 teachers working in 24 secondary schools selected by cluster sampling method. In this research, "Organizational Climate Scale", " Organizational Creativity Scale and "Organizational Cynicism Scale" were used. Frequency and percentage, standard deviation, arithmetic mean, independent sample t-test, ANOVA test, Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis techniques were used in the statistical analysis of the data. It was determined that the perceptions of the teachers participating in the study on organizational climate, organizational creativity and organizational cynicism were statistically significant differences in some of the independent variables used in the research. As a result of the correlation analysis, supportive principal behaviors, sincere teacher behaviors and collaborative teacher behaviors were found to be positive and moderate in terms of organizational creativity levels of organizational climate. There is a positive and low level between the behaviors of commanding principals and organizational creativity of teachers; negative and low level of relationship was found between unconcerned teacher behaviors and organizational creativity levels of teachers. Supportive behaviors of organizational climate and organizational cynicism levels of teachers were negatively and moderately; there is a negative and low level between sincere teacher behaviors and collaborative teacher behaviors and teachers' organizational cynicism levels; there is a positive and low level between the behaviors of commanding principals and restrictive principals and organizational cynicism levels of teachers; It was found that there was a positive and moderate relationship between unconcerned teacher behaviors and teachers' organizational cynicism levels. There was a negative and moderate relationship between organizational creativity and organizational cynicism levels of teachers. As a result of the regression analysis, it was determined that perceived organizational climate is a significant predictor of teachers' organizational creativity and organizational cynicism levels. Key Words :Organizational climate, organizational creativity, cynicism, teacher, secondary school