The Effect of Effective Communication Skills of Academicians in Faculties of Sports Sciences on Organizational Culture Type

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the effect of communication skills evaluation levels of academicians working in Sports Sciences Faculties on organizational culture types and to determine the relationship between them. In this study correlational survey model was used. The research group consisted of 230 academicians working at the Faculty of Sports Sciences. In this study, the data was collected using Communication Skills Evaluation Scale developed by Korkut (1996) and Organizational Culture Inventory developed by Deshpande, Farley, and Webster (1993), which was adapted into Turkish culture by Erdem, Adıgüzel and Kaya (2011). simple linear regression analysis, Pearson's correlation analysis, independent samples t-test analysis, One-Way ANOVA were used for the analysis of the data. It has been determined that the relations between the communication skills evaluation levels of academicians and the scores of organizational culture types and the scores obtained for the general organizational culture, and the communication skills evaluation levels of academicians have a positive effect on organizational culture. It was determined that there was a significant difference between the title and management styles according to the communication skills evaluation levels of the academicians, but there was no significant difference between the gender and the status of administrative duties. While there was no significant difference between the cultural levels of the organizational culture types of the academicians and the culture levels of the general organizational culture, there was no significant difference between gender, but a significant difference was found according to the title and management style.