In this study, the relationship between the mobbing experienced by the teachers in the Dulkadiroglu district of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, and their psychological resilience was investigated. The sample of this study was formed by a randomly selected group of 290 teachers. Psychological Mobbing Scale (Ocak, 2008) and Psychological Resilience Scale…

The aim of the research is to examine power-center forming games behaviors of the school principals according to view of the teachers. In the research a mixed type was preferred and descriptive sequential pattern was used. The population of the research has consisted of teachers working in kindergarten, primary schools, middle schools and high…

In this study, it was aimed to determine how the secondary school administrators and teachers influence each other and their perceptions of the types of organizational justice. It was also tested whether the types of organizational justice predict the organizational influence strategies or not. The data were collected from 284 school…

This study investigates the role of content, context and process variables in the socialization of new faculty members. The study was designed as a phenomenological study and utilized interview as the data collection technique. A total number of 40 new faculty members working in 12 different public universities in Turkey participated in the study.…

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of what human relations mean for school principals. The following questions were examined in the present study: "On what bases are human relations established by school principals both inside and outside the school?" and "Which meaning patterns are apparent in these…

The general purpose of the present research is to examine teachers' perceptions of being exposed to Mobbing. The population of the research, in which the screening model is used, consists of teachers working in private and public elementary schools during the 2015-2016 school year. The study group is formed with 305 teachers who were voluntarily…

The purpose of this research is to determine whether psychological needs that the special education teachers have, significantly predict the professional quality of life. Descriptive survey design was used in the research. The data of the research were obtained from 238 special education teachers (45% males and 55.5% females) who were working as a…

A large, nationally representative, cross-sectional survey was conducted in Turkey in 2008. In this survey, which used the WHO (World Health Organization) study module on violence, information about lifetime and current violence (past 12 months) was obtained using weighted, stratified, and multistage cluster sampling. This article describes…

Classroom talk is an example of institutional discourse, based on asymmetrical distribution of communicative rights and obligations between teachers and students. Teachers hold power and solidarity relationships with their students. It has been assumed that, in general, women are more concerned with solidarity while men are more interested in…

The primary focus of organization in Turkish society has been the extended family, with an emphasis on family loyalty and an extremely centralized authority. To study the relationships among levels of supervision in relation to personality and cultural influence, 69 subjects (foremen and department heads) were drawn from three small Turkish…

Discusses the discourse strategies that status-unequal interlocutors use in expressing disagreement. Reveals semantic formulas as influenced by the role relationships and compares and contrasts the discourse strategies used by native speakers of Turkish and American English for the same speech event in order to obtain a cross-culture perspective.…