QUIET QUITTING BEHAVIORS OF TEACHERS WORKING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INTÜRKİYE - A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

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Study examines teachers’ and school administrators’ opinions about quiet quitting behaviors observed among teachers in public schools in Türkiye. Employing a phenomenological design within a qualitative research approach, the study involves 33 teachers and 14 administrators. Data were gathered through surveys and analyzed using descriptive analysis and conventional content analysis. Participants reported an increase in recent years, including reduced contribution, low performance, limited communication and relationships, diminished motivation, and low interest in professional development.

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QUIET QUITTING BEHAVIORS OF TEACHERS WORKING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INTÜRKİYE: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH KÜRŞAD YILMAZ MUSTAFA ÇELİK RECEP SERKAN ARIK Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Türkiye ABSTRACT This study is aimed to determine the opinions of teachers and school administrators working in public schools in Türkiye regarding the quiet quitting behavior they observe in teachers. The phenomenological approach was used in the research conducted with the qualitative research method. There are 33 teachers and 14 school administrators in the study group of the research. The data were collected through survey. Descriptive analysis and conventional content analysis were used to analyze the data. All the participants reported observing an increase in quiet quitting behaviors among teachers in recent years. These behaviors include actions behaviors such as“not contributing, showing low performance, minimizing relationships and communication, low motivation, and lack of interest in professional issues and professional development.” Participants'opinions about the reasons for quiet quitting behavior were categorized under the theme ofsystemrelated reasons. The responses within this theme were further divided into sub-themes such as “low salaries, teachers’feeling worthless, unfair practices of school principals, inadequacies of school principals, dominance ofparents and students in the education system, indifference ofstudents and their parents, disbelief in the education system, political and union divisions in schools, and the challenges of constant change in the education system.” INTRODUCTION Although the concept of quiet quitting appeared in the German management literature in the early 1980s (Jehle & Schmitz, 2007; Seçer, 2009; Üstün & Tatlı, 2020), it has not become widespread worldwide. Although it is claimed on the Internet and in dozens of articles that the concept of quiet quitting was first used by Mark Boldger in an economics symposium in 2009, Hitt (2022) determined that this was not true as a result of his interview with Boldger. First of all, Boldger made this speech in a protest action, not in a symposium. Additionally, Boldger did not exactly make a quiet quitting statement in this action. The person who caused the concept of quiet quitting becoming popular recently and turning into a trend is a TikTok user named Zaid Khan, whois an engineer. In the video he published on the social media, Khan said,“Quiet quitting does not mean quitting your job. It just means preventing your work from taking over your life. Your job isnot your life! Your value cannot be defined by what you produce" and managed to reach millions of people (Çalışkan, 2023; Çimen & Yılmaz, 2023; Örücü & Hasırcı, 2023; Yıldız & Özmenekşe, 2022) . Thus, the concept of quiet quitting has come to be used by many people around the world. The concept attracted more attention with another video published by Bryan Creely on TikTok and YouTube (2022) . Since then, quiet quitting behavior has been the subject of many platforms such as Nature, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Guardian as well as scientific articles. The frequent use of the concept coincides with the Covid-19 pandemic period because the Covid-19 pandemic has caused many thoughts about work and life to change (Boz et al., 2023) and has caused the quiet quitting behavior to spread all over the world. This situation has been frequently emphasized in various sources. According to SHRM Research Institute's (2022) research, Educational Planning | Winter 2025 79 Vol. 32, No. 1 36% of human resources professionals reported that quiet quitting behavior actively occurs in their institutions. According to the Gallup 2022 survey, approximately 50% of US employees stated that they quit their works quietly (Harter, 2022). According to the feedback BetterUp (2022) received from approximately 3,000 employees in the UK, one in three employees in the UK describe themselves as quiet quitters. Accordin

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What is the purpose of this study on quiet quitting behaviors?

The study aims to determine teachers’ and school administrators’ opinions about quiet quitting behaviors they observe in teachers in public schools in Türkiye.

How was the research conducted and analyzed?

A phenomenological approach with qualitative research was used. Data were collected through surveys and analyzed using descriptive analysis and conventional content analysis.

What actions did participants associate with quiet quitting behaviors?

Participants linked quiet quitting to behaviors such as not contributing, showing low performance, minimizing relationships and communication, low motivation, and lack of interest in professional issues and professional development.

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