The relationship between teachers' political skills and organizational dissent levels

The aim of this research is to reveal the relationship between teachers' political skills and organizational dissent levels. Relational screening model was used in the research. For the research, 400 teachers who worked in secondary schools in İzmir were examined. The data were collected by using political skill scale that was adapted to Turkish by Atay(2009) and organizational dissent scale that was developed by Özdemir (2010). In the analyse of the data; frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation values were calculated. Independent sample t-test, one-way variance analysis, pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used. According to the results of the research, teachers' political skill level is very high. In addition to this, according to teachers' perceptions, the dimension of apparent sincerity is higher than iletişim kurmaing ability, interpersonal influence and social astuteness. When political skill is observed in the dimension of task, there is a significant difference between teachers and school directors. School directors have higher political skill level than teachers. Teachers' perceptions about political skill level doesn't differ in terms of gender, professional seniority, graduate level, number of teachers at the same school and the duration of working at the same school variables in total and all dimensions. Teachers' dissent behaviour level is low. In addition to this, the behaviour of direct dissent is higher than the behaviour of indirect dissent and whistle blowing. Teachers' perceptions about dissent behaviour don't differ in terms of gender, professional seniority, graduate level, number of teachers at the same school and the duration of working at the same school variables in total and all dimensions. According to the results of the study, there is a positive low-level relationship between teachers' political skills and organizational dissent levels. Keywords: Political Skill, Organizational Dissent