A RESEARCH ON TEACHERS IN TERMS OF JOB SATISFACTION AND ETHICAL CLIMATE

The purpose of this research is to compare teachers' perception levels in terms of job satisfaction and ethical climate. In the section regarding research findings and their assessment, frequency distribution of participants' demographic characteristics, standard deviation and mean values of research variables are included to make the data ready to analyze; results of reliability analysis are taken into consideration to determine if the data are suitable for statistical analysis; results of Independent Samples T-Test and One Way ANOVA are included to compare two groups and make comparisons between more than two groups respectively. Correlation and Regression analyses are made to determine the relationship between the perceptions of participants regarding job satisfaction level and ethical climate. According to findings obtained from the research, we can say that the ethical climate perception of teachers related to considering what's best for others in their institutions is in the medium-level. We can also say that the ethical climate perception of teachers related to laws, rules and policies in their institutions are high. When the findings obtained from the research are considered, it is seen that there is a significant relationship between teachers' job satisfaction levels and their perception of the dimension of considering what's best for others in an ethical climate. In the light of the findings obtained it is concluded that job satisfaction levels of teachers positively affect their ethical climate perceptions in general, job satisfaction levels of teachers positively affect their perception related to organizational interest in an ethical climate and job satisfaction levels of teachers positively affect their perceptions related to considering what's best for others in an ethical climate.