INVESTIGATION OF THE MANAGEMENT STYLES DISPLAYED BY PRIMARY SCHOOL DIRECTORS

Abstract

The low-level research, which aims to determine the management styles exhibited by the primary school school administration and to examine it in terms of some demographic variables, was carried out with the screening model, one of the quantitative research methods. The sample of the study consists of 264 primary school teachers who were determined by the appropriate sampling method and answered the questionnaire. In the research, the “Management Styles Displayed by School Administrators Scale” adapted by Asar (2021) was used as a data collection tool, and the data collected by the online method were analyzed through the SPSS analysis program. According to the research findings, according to primary school teachers, school administrators’ apathetic, authoritarian and democratic management style averages are high at the level of "Very Agree", the average of management style dimensions are very close to each other in general, but school administrators exhibit more indifferent and authoritarian management style, gender, marital status. While there was no statistical difference according to educational status factors, it was concluded that there was a statistical difference according to age and seniority factors. Providing contemporary and modern management training on managerial competencies, reviewing the selection and assignment regulation for school administrators, providing pre-service training for school administrators before starting their duties, establishing manager training standards by following the developments and studies in the world in this regard, and the fact that senior teachers are also members of the organization are the suggestions developed based on the results of the research.