Value congruence of the individual values and organizational values of high school teachers

The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of teachers' working at official high schools in the centre of Antalya, about individual and organizational congruence according to some variables. According to the research findings in the field of person- organization fit; when individual and organizational congruence increases, individual and organizational performance, organizational commitment and job satisfaction increases, too. This congruence decreases the factors causing stres in organization. Therefore the congruence between teachers' individual values and organizational values of schools can be regarded as a factor which improves education quality. This study is descriptive and a total of 355 teachers working at 54 high schools (Kepez, Konyaaltı, Muratpaşa) were selected as the study sample by using simple random sampling method. In order to collect data, 'Questionnaire of Individual Values' and 'Questionnaire of OrganizationalValues' were used. To solve the sub-problems of the research Pearson Correlation Analysis has been used for the value congruence of the individual values and organizational values of high school teachers. T-test has been applied for independent variable gender. For independent variable age one-way anova has been applied. One-way anova has been used fort he variable of length of working time and education status. According to the results of the study a meaningful and positive relation at medium level has been found between the individual and organizational values of the high school techers. There isn't a meaningful difference of individual values according to the gender. There is a meaningful difference of organizational values according to the gender. There isn't a meaningful difference of individual values and organizational values according to the age. There is a maningful difference of individual values and organizational values according to the length of working time. There isn't a meaningful difference of individual and organizational values according to the education status. Keywords: Teacher Values, Individual Values, Organizational Values, Value Congruence