The high school teachers' perceptions on relationship between of employee empowerment and organizational trust: A case for Elaziğ province

This research aims to determine The Perceptions of the High School Teachers on Relationship Between of Employee Empowerment and Organizational Trust. 3080 teachers working in the state high schools in Elazığ province in 2017-2018 academic year constituted the target population of this study. 500 teachers who were selected randomly with cluster sampling method formed the sample of the study. As the current situation is described in the survey, the relational screening model is used. Kruskal Wallis-H test, Mann Whitney U test, Correlation and regression analyzes were used in the data analysis. In the survey, As data collection methods, "The Structural Reinforcement and Psychological Strength Scale", developed by Laschinger et al. (2001), adapted by Topoyan, Tolay and Sürgevil (2013) and "the Organizational Confidence Scale", developed by Hoy, Gage and Tarter (2003) and adapted by Yılmaz (2015) were used. According to the results of the survey, there is a positive relationship between structural reinforcement and psychological strength and organizational trust. Significant differences were found between the perceptions of the structural strength of the participants' genders regarding information and resource dimensions. Again, there was a significant difference between formal reinforcing and non-formal reinforcing dimensions of structural strengthing in terms of service changes in durations of participants. It was seen that there was a meaningful difference between formal reinforcement, unstructured reinforcement and general reinforcement dimensions between perception levels of structural reinforcement of participants and school type factors. Again, the perceptions and information dimension of the structural strengthening in terms of branch factors of the participants were found meaningful with respect to the reputation. Perceptiveness levels of structural reinforcement in terms of learning status factors of participants were found to be significant differences in terms of opportunity, formal strengthening and general strengthening. The difference between the perception levels of psychological strengthening of the participants in terms of gender factor and the qualifications and effect dimensions were found significant. According to the results of the survey, it was determined that the perceptions of organizational trust of the participants did not show a significant difference in terms of gender, duration of service, school type and education status factors, whereas the perception level of organizational trust was found to be significantly different from the participant's perspective. Key words: Structural reinforcement, Psychological strengthening, Teachers' Perceptions.