The relationship between secondary school teachers’ perceptions of organizational politics and their organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors

In this research, it is aimed to reveal the relationships among, secondary school teachers’ perceptions of organizational politics, organizational dependence and organizational citizenship behaviours. 2972 teachers teaching in Malatya’s central districts (Battalgazi and Yeşilyurt) during 2017-2018 academic year constitute the universe of the research. 856 of whom were defined through stratified sampling method as the sample of the research. In this relational screening model based research, a model was suggested by researchers for the relationship between variables and this model was tested by SEM analyse. At the end of the research; its understood that the perceptions of organizational politics of secondary school teachers’ predict their “organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviours significantly in a negative way”, estimate “organizational commitment’ and organizational citizenship behaviours significantly in a positive way” and have a partial procuration role between organizational commitment perceptions of organizational politics associated with organizational citizenship behaviour. Besides, it is comfirmed that the research explains nearly the %59 of the variance of secondary school teachers’ perception of organizational politics perception and organizational commitment on organizational citizenship behaviours. © 2020, Hacettepe University. All rights reserved