An investigation into the relationship between organiztion culture at schools and teachers' views on unions

The aim of this thesis is to investigate and identify the relation between organization culture and teachers' opinions about unions at schools. Quantitative method has been successfully used to identify the relation between organization culture and teachers' opinions about unions at schools. The population of this study has been built by all of the schools in Kadikoy, Maltepe, Umraniye, Tuzla, Pendik, Sancaktepe and Kartal counties which are located in Istanbul. This study has been formed by 318 teachers who educate and teach at state and private; elementary, secondary and high schools in 2013-2014 academic year and they have been choosen randomly. Personal Information Questionnaire, School Culture Scale (Terzi, 2005), and Teachers' Views on Unions Scale (Yasan, 2012) have been used as data collection tool. The data have been analysed by using SPSS-15. t-Test and ANOVA are used to compare the point averages which have been collected from the scales. The results of the study show that structure of organization culture at these schools play effective role how teachers determine their attitudes on unions. Moreover, it is also concluded that teachers take a positive attitudes towards especially school environments in which they live and feel more duty and bureaucracy. Key Words: 1. Organization Culture 2. School Culture 3. Union 4. Education Unions