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Changes in the environment cause the organization to fall into a balancing effort when it starts to influence the organization through its input. What is more, when balances around the organization reach large dimensions, these balancing efforts start to disturb the organization so much that the organization finds its way of salvation in the direction of the demands of the environment. Hence, changes in the environment necessitate change in business administration, business, technology and group structures. In this context, the main aim of this research is to examine the resistance towards change within the teachers working at primary schools. For this purpose, semi-structured interview form was developed by the researchers within the aim to determine whether the teachers differ according to their demographic characteristics or not. The sample of the research is selected from the teachers working in primary schools in Nicosia in the academic year of 2018/2019 and selected by simple random sampling technique. Finally, recommendations were made to educators and researchers regarding the results of the study.
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Öznacar, B., Yilmaz, N. (2020). Evaluation of Primary School Teachers’ Resistance to Change. In: Hemanth, D., Kose, U. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Applied Mathematics in Engineering Problems. ICAIAME 2019. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 43. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36178-5_67
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