Anatolian high school teachers' level of work environment fit (Sample of diyarbakir province)

The purpose of this study was to determine how Anatolian high school teachers' fit level to their work environment is. Therefore, in order to determine teachers' level of fit with their "school", "work", "colleagues" and "administrators" that form teachers' work environment, it was investigated whether there is a significant difference between teachers' perceptions according to education level, gender, marital status, branch, professional seniority and school size variables. The population of this study was 424 teachers in 14 official Anatolian high schools that located in the city center of Diyarbakir in 2012-2013 academic year. Sample of the study is 215 teachers who were selected from these schools randomly. In this case, the ratio of sampling to the total target population is 50, 7%. In the study, as questionnaire "Teachers' Work Environment Fit Scale" was used. The scale was used by Demirkasımoğlu (2012) as the second part of the data collection tool of the doctoral studies called "The Relationship between Psychological Contract Perceptions and Person-Environment Fit Levels of Public and Private Elementary School Teachers". The questionnaire is composed of four sub-dimensions. They are: "Teacher- School Fit", "Teacher -Colleagues Fit", "Teacher-Profession Fit" and "Teacher-Administer Fit". In the questionnaire, there are 22 questions which were designed to measure the level of Anatolian high school teachers' level of work environment fit. In the analysis of data, SPSS 20.0 program was used to calculate the arithmetic mean and standard deviation scores. The t-test was used for education level, gender and marital status variables; one-way (ANOVA) variance test analysis was applied for branch, professional seniority and school size variables. The level of significance is taken as 0.05. As the result of the study, teachers' level of fit with their work environment was found "medium" level ( = 3.23) on the basis of the scale. The sub-dimensions which have the highest and the same mean levels are "Teacher- School Fit" and "Teacher-Colleagues Fit". The sub-dimension which has the lowest mean is "Teacher - Administrator Fit". In the results of the analysis regarding education statues, gender and marital status, there were not found any significant differences in any of the sub-dimensions. In the analysis results related to branch there was not a significant difference in the dimensions of "Teacher- Profession Fit" and "Teacher-Administer Fit". But there is a significant difference in the dimensions of "Teacher- School Fit" and "Teacher- Colleagues Fit". The analysis results related to professional seniority only in the sub- dimension of "Teacher- Colleagues Fit" has a significant difference. There were no significant differences in other sub-dimensions. In the results of the analysis related school size only in the sub- dimension of "Teacher- Administer Fit" was a significant difference, there were not any significant differences in other dimensions. In the questionnaire of teachers' environment fit, the item (item 18) which has the highest mean ( = 4.19) is "I get along well with my colleagues" in the sub-dimension of "Teacher - Colleagues Fit". In the questionnaire the item (item 4) which has the lowest mean ( = 2.52) is "I adopt the majority of school policies in my school" in the sub- dimension of "Teacher- School Fit". Key Words: Anatolian high school, fit, fit of work, work environment fit.