The correlation between school directors' paternalist leadership level and teachers' organisational cynism level

The aim of this research is to reveal the correlation between school directors' paternalist leadership level and teachers' organisational cynism perceptions. The research is in relational screening model. For the research 148 secondary, 201 high school in total 349 teachers' who work in Uşak city center in 2014-2015 educational year perceptions were examined. The data were collected by using paternalist leadership scale and organisational cynism scale. In the analyse of data ; frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation values were calculated. And then indepentent sample t-test,anova tests, correlation and regresyon analysis were used. According to research results school directors' paternalist leadership level was found as " I agree alittle" level in authoritarian leadership and in benevolent leadership dimensions. Paternalist leadership level was found as " I agree in middle level" level in moral leadership dimension and in total. School directors' paternalist leadership level was found as medium level in authoritarian leadership dimension. And school directors' moral leadership level is higher than their benevolent and authoritarian leadership levels. When demographic variables observed, teachers' perceptions about school directors' paternalist leadership level differs in terms of professional time at the same school in moral leadership dimension. The less time of length teachers work at the same school, the more paternalistic they think their directors are. Significant difference was found teachers' perceptions about school directors' moral and authoritarian leadership levels in terms of type of schools. High school teachers' perceptions ratio in moral leadership are higher than secondary school teachers. Secondary school teachers' perceptions ratio in authoritarian leadership are higher than high school teachers. Teachers' perceptions about their directors' paternalist leadership level doesn't differ in terms of gender, professional seniority, number of teachers at the same school and graduate level variables in total and all dimensions. Teachers' organisational cynism perception level is low. Teachers' organisational cynism perception level doesn't differ in terms of gender and professional seniority. Besides in terms of teachers' professional time at the same school variable teachers' organisational cynism level differs in decision taking dimension. The less time of length teachers work at the same school, the more ratio in decision taking they have. Significant difference was found in alineation, negative attitude and decision taking dimension in terms of school type variable. High school teachers have higher ratio in alineation, negative attitude dimensions and in total than secondary school teachers. Secondary school teachers have higher ratio in decision taking dimension than high Keywords: Paternalist Leadership,Organisational Cynism,Teachers' Perceptions.