A STUDY TO DETERMINE TEACHING STAFF – STUDENT EXCHANGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHING STAFF: A RESEARCH ON A STATE UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Leadership is the sum total of the knowledge and skills to mobilize a group of people around certain goals and to mobilize them in order to accomplish those goals. Leadership-member interaction is a theory based on mutual trust, respect and duty consciousness, and leadership is a theory that explained in the context of bilateral relations between leader and members, that leaders are showing different attitudes towards their subordinates in parallel with work-related differences. Quantitative research method was used in the research. In this context, the research universe of study constitutes 872 teaching staffs in six faculties (Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Literature, Faculty of Law and Business School) at a state university in Turkey. However, as a sample, the questionnaire forms were distributed to 115 teaching staffs and 108 questionnaire forms were deemed appropriate to evaluate because of incomplete and insufficient information. The obtained data were evaluated using the SPSS 23.0 program. A simple random sampling method was used in the study. The limitation of the research is that it has been only done in a state university. Demographic information such as age, gender, marital status, professional status, professional experience, duration of “Leader-Member Exchange Scale" (LMX) developed by Liden and Maslyn (1998) was used to gather information about the instructors. For statistical analysis of research data SPSS 23.0 package program was used. Of the 108 respondents, %61,1 were male and 69,4 were married. Of those involved in the survey, 46,2 are teaching assistant and %78,6 are teaching staff have 2-16 years of experience. Finally it has been determined that 70,2 of the participants have been working at the institution for at most 10 years. A validity reliability analysis of the study was conducted and found that the Kaiser Meyer Olkin (KMO) value was 0.816 and the cronbach alpha value was 0.850. There was no significant difference between Leader Member Exchange and gender (p=0,635), status (p=0,175), professional experience (p=0,262), but differences were found according to marital status (p=0,016), work duration (p=0,022) and age (p=0,001).