An investigation of organizational trust level of teachers according to some variables

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate organizational trust of teachers in terms of variables of gender, experience, and teaching subject. It was investigated whether these variables would cause a significant difference in organizational trust level of teachers. Organizational trust used as dependent variable in this study. Independent variables were gender, experience and teaching subject. This study was conducted in Denizli during 2007-2008 academic year. The sample consisted of 354 elementary school teachers. To collect data, "Personal Information Form" and "Omnibus T Scale (OTS)" developed by Hoy and Tschannen-Moran (2003), were used. In this study, statistical techniques such as standard deviation, mean, t-test and the one way analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used. Results showed that there was no significant difference by gender but there were significant differences by experience and teaching subject in organizational trust level of teachers. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved