The relationship between the empowering leadership of school principals and the organizational dissent of teachers

The main purpose of this research is determining the relationship between the level of empowering leadership of principals and the organizational dissent of teachers. For this purpose, a descriptive research has been realized in the survey model of quantitative research patterns. The research population comprises 4881 teachers work at 197 public schools in the districts of Battalgazi in Malatya in 2019– 2020 academic year. The research sampling comprises 321 teachers working at the 19 public schools. The data collection tools comprise three parts. In the first part there are personal information. In the second part, there are 17 items of Principal Empowering Leadership Scale. In the third part, there are 17 items of Organizational Dissent Scale. Mean, frequency, standart deviation, t-test, simple linear correlation and one way variance were used for the data analysis. According to results; it is discovered that there is no significant difference between the level of empowering leadership of principal and the teachers' gender, branch, the last completed education institution, tenure at school, level of education they are in charge; according to teachers' perception.It is determined that there is significant difference between the level of empowering leadership of principal and seniority, working period with principal and the number of teacher at the school. It is also determined there is no significant difference between teachers'organizational dissent and the teachers' gender, branch, education level, the last completed education institution,working period with principal, stage they are responsible and the number of teachers at school. It is also found that there is significant difference between the level of Teachers' Organizational Dissent and seniority and working period with principal. There is a low level of positive relationship between the level of empowering leadership and Teachers'Organizational Dissent.