The relationship between shared leadership practices in schools and teachers'organisational thrust level

The aim of this research is to reveal the relationship between shared leadership practices in secondary schools and tachers' organisational trust level. Relational screening model was used in the research. The target population of the study consisted of 2830 teachers and for the research, 410 teachers who worked in secondary in Afyonkarahisar in the 2015-2016 academic year were examined. Simple random sampling was used in this research. The data were collected by using Shared leadership scale and organizational trust scale. According to the results of the research, the level of teachers' perception of Shared leadership is moderate in the dimemsions of joint completition of tasks, mutual skill development and emotional support. Teachers' perception of decentralized interaction which is one of the dimensions of Shared leadersip is low. According to the teachers' professional seniority variable Shared leadership differs significiantly in the dimensions of joint completition of tasks, mutual skill development and emotional support while there is no difference with decetralized interaction dimension. According to the research result, teachers' perception of organizational trust level is high. According to the professional seniority variable, there is a significant difference between trust in the school and trust in the administrator. Whereas there is a significant difference in the trust dimension of the organization, there is no sinificiant difference in the trust subscale in terms of the number of teachers in the school.