The Impact of Drudgery Jobs and Procedures on Quality and Performance

Abstract

The drudgery means forced labor without any money. In social and organizational environments, it is used in the sense of non-functional, needless and vacant jobs. Social club activities in schools, specific days and weeks, coaching practices, etc. perceiving the issues as a drudgery chore may adversely affect the quality of the performance of the teacher, who is responsible for these activities and the quality of the individual and organizational outputs expected from these activities. However, carrying out these ac- tivities has very important individual and organizational consequences. In the study conducted in Düzce province with the participation of thirteen teachers in the 2018-2019 academic year, maximum diversity sampling method was used. Content analysis technique was used to analyze the data. In the study, interp- retive phenomenological pattern was used including questions about the meaning that teachers put on the drudgery concept and how they experienced it. At the end of the research, it was found that there were many drudgery tasks that were loaded on teachers and school administrators; performance is not used effectively in carrying out these tasks; therefore, it was found that the expected quality of the work outputs could not be achieved. In line with the results of the research, suggestions were made for the termination of the drudgery practices and the participation of the employees in the decision.