The relationship between teachers' organizational trust and organizational place structure

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of relationship between teachers' organizational trust and organizational relocation. For this purpose, data were collected from 407 volunteer teachers working in official primary and secondary education in Akyazı district of Sakarya province in the 2022-2023 academic year. The questionnaires were distributed via Google Forms. In the first part of the scale, questions about demographic information were asked, in the second part, questions about organizational trust consisting of twenty items, and in the third part, questions about organizational relocation consisting of seventeen items. The entire population was taken as a model in the study. Relational survey method was used in the study. The data obtained were analyzed with SPSS 25.0 package program. According to the normality tests, it was observed that gender, marital status, seniority, school type and tenure data; organizational trust and organizational relocation sub-dimensions data were normally distributed. Independent groups t-test and ANOVA analyses were used to determine the difference and effect levels between variables. Pearson correlation analysis was used to determine the level of relationship between the variables, and regression analysis was applied to find out to what extent the variables predict each other. In the light of the analyses, it was seen that teachers trusted their colleagues the most and the administrator the least; male teachers trusted the institution and the administrator more than female teachers; married teachers had a higher level of trust than single teachers; organizational trust did not show a significant difference according to the seniority variable; teachers working in basic education trusted more than those working in secondary education; organizational trust did not make a significant difference according to the length of service in the school. While the level of perception of relocation was found to be at a medium level, gender, seniority, marital status, school type and length of service in the school did not make a difference in the perception of relocation. More than half of the teachers thought that relocation would bring economic burden. The relationship between organizational trust and relocation was found to be low and positive; trust did not contribute sufficiently to relocation and its predictive power was weak. In line with these findings and results, suggestions were made for practitioners and researchers.