The relationship between the organizational alienation and organizational citizenship behaviours of the primary school teachers

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the organizational alienation and the organizational citizenship behaviours of primary teachers. The research population consists of 700 teachers from 90 primary schools in the central district of Mardin in the academic year of 2015-2016. The data collection instrument was applied to randomly selected 346 teachers from 40 schools. For the analysis of the data; mean scores, standard deviations, Mann–Whitney U test and the Kruskal–Wallis test were used. The relationship between organizational alienation and organizational citizenship behavior were examined by means of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The level of significance was 0.05. In the study, a moderate level of negatively significant relationship was found between organizational alienation and organizational relationship behaviours (r = -.510, p < .01). The less organizational alienation, the more organisational citizenship behaviours. Key Words: Alienation, organisational alienation, organizational citizenship behaviou