Perceptions of instructors working in Turkish language teaching application and research centers in Turkey regarding support from organization, manager and colleagues

This research aims to determine the perceptions of the academicians working in Turkish Language Teaching Application and Research Centers regarding the support of the organization, administrator and colleagues and the effects of variables such as gender, age, seniority and education level on these perceptions. In this research, the descriptive survey model, which is one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The "Perceived Organizational, Administrator and Colleague Support Scale" developed by Giray and Şahin (2012) was used as the data collection tool. This scale was applied to 233 academicians who worked or are still working in TOMERs. The data obtained in the research was analyzed with the SPSS program. Cronbach's Alpha, Correlation Analysis, Anova and T-Test were used in the analysis of the data. According to the findings, the perceived organizational support (X̄=3.72), administrator support (X̄=3.72) and colleague support (X̄=3.65) levels of the academicians working in TOMERs are quite high. In the analyses, factors such as gender, age, length of service, level of education and length of time working with the manager at the institution were taken into consideration. According to the obtained data, there was no significant difference in the levels of organizational, manager and co-worker support perceived by the faculty members in terms of variables, but it was found that some groups, such as men or individuals with longer length of service, had higher perceptions of some types of support. According to the research results, the perceptions of organizational, manager and co-worker support of the faculty members working at TOMERs did not show a significant difference according to demographic characteristics. The faculty members perceived the highest support in the sub-dimensions of manager support and organizational support. The fact that the faculty members' perceptions of organizational support towards their institutions were high indicates that the resources and working conditions provided by their institutions were evaluated positively by the faculty members.