The opinions of teachers working in public schools in Hakkari province on organizational dissent

The aim of this research is to determine the opinions of the teachers working in public primary, secondary and high schools located in the province of Hakkari and its districts on organizational dissent. The study which is a descriptive survey was carried out with the quantitative method. In this research, target population consisted of 3019 teachers. Organizational Dissent Scale, which was developed by Doç.Dr. Murat ÖZDEMİR was administered to the sample. The data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for Social Science(SPSS) and arithmetic means and Standard deviations of the answers that teachers gave to the items were calculated. T-test and One-wayanalysis of variance(ANOVA) were used to determine whether teachers'opinions on organizational dissent differ according to the various demographic variables or not and also LSD test was used to determine the source of the difference. It was found out in the research that dissent expressions of the teachers were triggered by impending teachers from using their legitimate rights, underestimating, favoring certain teachers than the other, uninvolving in thedecision-making process and unfair distribution of responsibilities and duties. When the effects of demographic variables on organizational dissent were analyzed, it was understood that there was no meaningful difference according to gender, membership of theunion, educational status, age, seniority, thenumber of schoolsstudiedandschool size. But there was meaningful difference according to marital status. It was understood that married teachers were more dissenter than single. The most common dissent behavior of the teachers was to object directly to the administrators. According to research, unionist teachers Express whistle-blowing behaviors than the others. In the study, it was understood that the dissenters were tried to be suppressed by their administrators. Also, it was noticed that dissident unionist teachers were exposed to negative behaviors of administrators. Also, in the face of dissent of teachers, administrators looked for support for themselves. It was also understood that senior teachers thought that there were negative results of dissent on administrators. In the study, it was concluded that dissent increases self-control and schooleffectiveness. Keywords: Organizational dissent, articulated dissent, lateral dissent, displaced dissent, whistleblowing, school.