Quiet Quitting in Career Ladders: Teacher Perspective

LIterature revIewModern organizations are very likely to be affected by social, economic and technological developments.While this situation changes the structure of organizations, it abstract This study aims to reveal the association between teachers' career barriers and their quiet quitting.Also, predictive level of career barriers for quiet quitting was investigated.Therefore, relational survey model of quantitative research designs was employed.Data were collected with Career Barriers Scale and Quiet Quitting Scale, from 384 teachers working in Mersin.As a result, teachers' opinions about career barriers are at a high level though their inclination to quiet quitting is quite low.Furthermore, teachers' opinions showed significant difference in family barriers by gender and bureaucratic barriers in higher education by school type while, in terms of quiet quitting, significant difference was revealed in sub-factors of work related performance and depersonalization towards work by gender, in sub-factors of work related performance and indifference towards school by school type.Career barriers have a low but significant correlation with quiet quitting at dimensional level.Multiple regression analysis showed that career barriers explain the variance in quiet quitting slightly but significantly.Discussion and suggestions were made in line with these findings.