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The aim of this phenomenological study was twofold. The first was to identify the reasons why female teachers are not interested in becoming administrators, namely to understand why they are not interested in this position. The second was to uncover what problems women administrators face and understand if these problems are influencing their decision not to pursue administrator positions. The participants were 26 female teachers and 17 female administrators working in different types of schools. The research data were collected through semi-structured questions and analyzed using the content analysis method. The majority of obstacles experienced by female administrators are the same ones seen as obstacles by female teachers. Despite no legal barriers to women becoming administrators, functional reasons underrepresent women in school administration. The reasons why female teachers don't want to become school administrators were due to family responsibilities, fear of economic losses, difficulties with female colleagues, heavy workloads and responsibilities, difficulty balancing work and private lives, difficulties with administration, and parent problems. Finally, some recommendations were proposed to overcome the reported issues.

Knowledge-based organizational structures need leaders who manage and ensure the effectiveness of knowledge. Knowledge leaders encourage employees to participate in knowledge management processes, contribute to adopting knowledge management as part of organizational culture, and lead knowledge management activities by choosing the most appropriate infrastructure and technology. Schools are knowledge-intensive organizations that possess a large number of information areas that must be managed. The main actors who are responsible for managing these areas of knowledge are school principals. This situation requires school principals to be competent in terms of both knowledge management and leadership skills. The purpose of this study is to make a conceptual evaluation of the relationship between knowledge leadership and knowledge management. To achieve this aim, the relationships between knowledge leadership and knowledge management were examined, a conceptual evaluation of these relationships was made, and the importance of knowledge leadership both at the organizational level and the school level was emphasized. Designed as a theoretical literature review, it investigates the hypothesis that knowledge leaders undertake important roles in knowledge management processes. Therefore, the study is important for understanding the role of knowledge leaders in knowledge management.

Observation of different levels and types of organizational problems, such as school principals and teachers suing each other and conflicts between teachers, caused by union bias in schools in Turkey today, is the starting point of this study. This study, therefore, aimed to develop and validate a scale that helps determine union bias in schools. Participants of the study included teachers being a union member and working at a primary, middle or high school in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 academic years in Düzce, Turkey. During the data analysis, firstly, the first data set was examined in terms of the assumptions of the factor analysis and then Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was applied. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was performed on the second data set. Convergent validity of the scale was examined with item load values, mean-variance, and composite reliability coefficients. Discriminant validity was examined by the Fornell-Lacker criteria. Also, measurement invariance in gender groups was examined. The Cronbach Alpha and combined reliability coefficients were calculated to determine the scale's reliability. The Union Bias scale consists of 27 items and six dimensions. The explained total variance was 64%. As a result of the first and second order confirmatory factor analyses, it was revealed that the six-dimensional structure predicted Union Bias and the scale's structure did not differ in gender groups. The Cronbach's alpha value was 0.90 and the composite reliability was 0.96. As a result, the structure of the Union Bias Scale was concluded to be valid and reliable.

The drudgery means forced labor without any money. In social and organizational environments, it is used in the sense of non-functional, needless and vacant jobs. Social club activities in schools, specific days and weeks, coaching practices, etc. perceiving the issues as a drudgery chore may adversely affect the quality of the performance of the teacher, who is responsible for these activities and the quality of the individual and organizational outputs expected from these activities. However, carrying out these activities has very important individual and organizational consequences. In the study conducted in Düzce province with the participation of thirteen teachers in the 2018-2019 academic year, maximum diversity sampling method was used. Content analysis technique was used to analyze the data. In the study, interpretive phenomenological pattern was used including questions about the meaning that teachers put on the drudgery concept and how they experienced it. At the end of the research, it was found that there were many drudgery tasks that were loaded on teachers and school administrators; performance is not used effectively in carrying out these tasks; therefore, it was found that the expected quality of the work outputs could not be achieved. In line with the results of the research, suggestions were made for the termination of the drudgery practices and the participation of the employees in the decision. [Note: The page range (692-744) shown on the PDF is incorrect. The correct page range for this article is p693-744.]

The purpose of this study is to determine the views of primary school teachers on intergenerational learning (IGL). The study group consists of eight primary schools in the central district of Düzce during the 2013-2014 academic year and 13 teachers who teach in these schools. Participants were selected among teachers working in Düzce's city center by using the criterion sampling method, one of the purposive sampling methods. Phenomenological design, a qualitative research design, was used in the study. The data was collected by the researcher through semi-structured interview questions that were developed through pre-interviews conducted with the teachers alongside research into the literature. According to the research findings, IGL is not a conscious, effective, or consistent situation among teachers from different generations. Members of younger and older generations were determined to not be eager enough to learn from each other in order to improve themselves. Inquiry-based learning and observational learning were more preferred as intergenerational learning methods among teachers from different generations. While the younger generations of teachers assist the older ones more with technological issues; the older generations of teachers convey their experiences in classroom management to the younger ones. The most important obstacle preventing intergenerational learning between teachers from different generations is lack of communication.

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The aim of this research is to determine teachers’ opinions about principals’ effects on school climate. The research is designed as a phenomenology, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group includes 13 teachers in primary, secondary, and high schools in Düzce city center in 2022-2023 academic year. Maximum variation sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling methods, is preferred. Data are collected through semi-structured interview questions. Content analysis technic is used in data analysis. Findings show that the attitudes and behaviors of school principals that affect the school climate, are cumulated under the themes of attitudes and behaviors that affect positively, attitudes and behaviors that affect negatively, and the individual and organizational consequences of attitudes and behaviors that affect positively or negatively. In order to create a positive school climate, it would be appropriate for the school principal to adopt a democratic and participatory, supportive leadership style instead of an authoritarian, oppressive or restrictive leadership model. The ideas of teachers should be valued in the decisions to be taken regarding the education and training processes, their participation in the decisions should be ensured, and they should be made to feel that they are an important actor in the school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this research, designed as a survey, is to examine organizational justice perceptions of primary school teachers. The data are collected from 269 primary school teachers using a simple random sampling method. The relation of organizational justice and its sub-dimensions with demographic variables is investigated. The "Organizational Justice Scale", developed by Niehoff&Moorman and adapted into Turkish by Polat, is used as the data collection tool. The results show that primary school teachers have a high level of organizational justice perception. Their perceptions of distributive, procedural and interactional justice, sub-dimensions of organizational justice, are also high. Primary school teachers' perceptions of organizational justice scale total, distributive and interactional justice did not differ significantly with gender, seniority, and tenure in the institution, but there was a significant difference with age. The procedural justice perceptions of primary school teachers don't differ significantly with gender, age, seniority, and tenure in the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]