Ethic principles of teaching profession and organizational citizenship behaviour (The case of Kocaeli province)

In this study, it is aimed to find out the relation between ethic principles of teaching profession and organizational citizenship behaviour; and to determine whether there is a significant difference between ethic principles of teaching profession and organizational citizenship behaviour according to the institution the teachers work at, their duties at the institution, their sexualities, their ages, the educational institution they graduated from, their branches and their service periods.As this study is a survey model study, the relevant literature was considered and the data were collected through the scale of Ethic Principles of Teaching Profession developed by the researcher and the scale of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour prepared by Janset Özen İşbaşı and adapted to teachers by the researcher. A 5-choice likert-type scale was used. The sample of the research consisted of 517 teachers working at primary and secondary schools in the centre of Kocaeli. Completed questionnaire forms on hand were analyzed using the SPSS v15.0 package software. Distribution of the data into subgroups were expressed as percentage (%), between group comparisons were done by using t test, and multiple group comparisons were done by ANOVA test. Significance level was taken as p< 0.05 in the statistical analysis of the survey.In the present study, it is seen that there is a significant relationship between the ethic principles of teaching profession and the organizational citizenship behaviour. It is discovered that both primary school teachers and old teachers have more ethic principles of teaching profession and more organizational citizenship behaviour characteristics than both secondary school teachers and young or adult teachers. Also, it is discovered that teachers show more organizational citizenship behaviour than administrators; female teachers are more altruist than male teachers; and female teachers stick to the working hours more than male teachers. It is established that as the teachers? service periods increase, the importance they especially give to their vocational development and cooperation also increases. It is seen that teachers who have postgraduate education tolerate the negativities better than other teachers. As a result, it can be considered that taking advantage of younger teachers from older teachers? knowledge and experiences, and also adding teaching subjects on ethics to the teacher education programme will provide benefit to increase the quality of teacher education.