Developıng Organizational Revenge Scale And Examining Teachers’ Opinions About Organizational Revenge

Author : -K. Funda Nayir
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In educational organizations, because of constant communication with all stakeholder, employees who may from time to time makes you feel a sense of revenge. The purpose of this study is to develop an organisational revenge scale to be used in educational institutions and to investigate the opinions of teachers regarding revenge seeking behaviour. In this study survey method was used. The data for the research was collected from 270 public school teachers assigned in the central province of Ankara in the 2014-2015 school year. 62% of the participants were female and 36.4% were male. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), total correlation of items, the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), arithmetical mean, standard deviation, t-test and ANOVA were used for the analysis of the data. The results of the EFA conducted for the scale found that the item factor weight value for the first factor is between .829 and .676; between .732 and .381 for the second factor and between .663 and .574 for the third factor. Results of the CFA found that the adaptation indices were χ2= 633.85; p= 0.00, sd=249, χ2/sd = 2.54, IFI= .95, RFI = .91, GFI = .84, AGFI = .80, CFI = .95, NNFI = .94, NFI = .92 and RMSEA = .076. According to the reliability analysis conducted for the scales, the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient and the split-half validity coefficients were on and above the border of .70, thus making the scale reliable.

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