A survey on the relationship between organization culture and burnout level of the teachers(Samples of Gebze and iİzmit cities in Kocaeli province)

The aim of this study is to find whether the organization culture and burnout degree of the high school teachers who serve in the state schools under Ministry of National Education in Gebze and Izmit cities of Kocaeli Province, depend to gender, graduation degree, branch, age, tenure of service, income level, branch satisfaction, form of employment, education level, marital status, technology usage, frequency of technology usage, lesson preparation, displeasure, student attitude, exchange of ideas, participation to personal development activities, applying creative teaching techniques, and whether there is a relationship at a significance level between their organization culture and the degree of their burnout. The sample of this study consists of 328 teachers. Burnout Scale, Organizational Culture Scale were used in this study as data collection tool. The SPSS 15.0 Program was used in order to investigate the frequency and percentage values of demographic features. The analysis was performed by using Independent Group T Test, Kruskall Wallis-H Test Analysis , One-way analysis of Variance ANOVA, Pearson Moment Correlation Analysis. According to the survey findings; gender, form of employment, education and displeasure are found to be effective variables in teachers' perception of organization culture; branch satisfaction, form of employment, marital status, frequency of technology usage, displeasure, student attitude, exchange of ideas, participation to personal development activities, applying creative teaching techniques are found to be effective variables in teachers' burnout level; there are significant relationships between teachers' burnout level and Adhocracy Culture in negative direction, burnout level and Market Culture in positive direction; a significant negative relationship exists between Emotional Exhaustion of the teachers and both Adhocracy and Market Cultures, and a significant positive relationship between Depersonalization of the teachers and Hierarchy Culture.