Okul Müdürlerinin Paternalist Liderlik Tarzlarının Öğretmenlerin Örgütsel Sessizlik Düzeylerine Etkisinin İncelenmesi.

This research aimed to examine the effect of school principals' paternalistic leadership styles on teachers' organizational silence levels. Quantitative analysis method was used in data collection. Relational screening method was used as the method. The survey form used within the scope of the research includes an 8-question demographic form created by the researcher, "Paternalistic Leadership Scale" and "Organizational Silence Scale". The sample of the research consists of 386 teachers working in public schools in Ankara. In this research, random sampling method was preferred to collect the necessary data. According to the findings obtained as a result of the research, there is a very weak positive relationship between the Organizational Silence Scale score and the PAYDA score. These findings reveal that the paternalistic leadership approach may affect employees' silence behaviors. While paternalistic leaders protect and protect their employees, they may also prevent them from freely expressing their opinions. This shows that managers need to balance both supportive and authoritarian approaches and develop encouraging strategies to hear the voice of their employees more. In addition, it was determined that there were relationships between the scales with gender, age, income level, educational status, working time with the current manager and total working time in the profession. According to the analysis results, no statistically significant difference was detected between the marital status groups in terms of PAYDA and Organizational Silence Scale and sub-dimension scores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]