The relationship between schools' DNA profiles and teachers' psychological contracts

The aim of this research is to reveal the relationship between schools' DNA profiles and teachers' psychological contracts. Relational screening model was used in the research. The target population of the study consisted of 1492 teachers and for the research, 399 teachers who worked in primary, secondary and high schools in Manisa, Şehzadeler in the 2016-2017 academic year were examined. Simple random sampling was used in this research. The data were collected by using organizational DNA scale and psychological contract scale. In the analyze of the data; frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation values were calculated. Independent sample t-test, one-way variance analysis, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used. According to the results of the research, teachers perceive schools' DNA as resilient organization profile. To gender results, male teachers have higher average to female's one in resilient and just in time organizational profiles. However, in the same time, female has higher average than male ones in military precision profile. There is also significant difference between resilient organization and grade of schools especially in primary school teachers and high school teachers. As numbers of teachers get increased, the teachers who do their job in their schools have higher perception of over managed organizational DNA. According to working in the same school, teachers' perception of organizational DNA is lower level than teachers who work longer in the same school. According to professional seniority, teachers' perception of DNA differs only in just in time organizational profiles. iv According to results of the study, it has been gotten results that perception of teachers' psychological contracts is low. In the sub categories of psychological contract, perception is midlevel in operational and relational contracts. There is no significant difference about variable of gender, professional seniority, number of teachers, working in the same school and grade of school. According to results of study, there is low and positive relationship between perception of teachers on healthy organizational DNA profiles especially in resilient organizational DNA. According to results of study, resilient, military and passive aggressive organizational profiles have predicted teachers' psychological contracts, meaningfully. Moreover resilient and passive aggressive organizational profiles have predicted relational contract of primary school teachers, meaningfully. In secondary schools, just in time organizational DNA profile have predicted relational contract of teachers, significantly. In high schools, military organization, just in time organization and passive aggressive organizational profiles predict relational contracts of teachers, meaningfully.