EXAMINING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’ AND TEACHERS’ CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES ACCORDING TO THEIR PERCEPTION IN TERMS OF CERTAIN VARIABLES
OKUL MÜDÜRLERİNE VE ÖĞRETMENLERİN ALGILARINA GÖRE ÇATIŞMA YÖNETİMİ STİLLERİNİN BAZI DEĞİŞKENLER AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ1

Author : Latife KABAKLI ÇİMEN -Fatmanur BAĞDATLI SARIBOĞA
Number of pages : 29-55

Abstract

This research is a descriptive study performed with the purpose of examining school administrators’ conflict management styles with respect to school administrators’ views and teachers’ perceptions in term of certain variables. The universe of the research is formed of teachers and principals working in primary, middle, and high schools on the European side of Istanbul province in Bahçelievler District in the 2014-2015 academic year. The sample consists of 103 administrators and 300 teachers working at 41 schools determined from within this general universe using simple random cluster sampling. The research uses a personal information form and the Rahim Organizational conflict inventory for identifying administrators’ conflict management styles. The collected data have been analyzed in the package program SPSS. As a result of the research school administrators have been determined to have very high attitudes on integration, high attitudes on making concessions and compromising, and moderate attitudes on ruling and avoidance. According to the teachers’ views, school administrators have high levels for their attitudes on integration, and medium levels for their attitudes on ruling, avoiding, conceding, and compromising. The research has found significant differences among administrators’ conflict management styles through school administrators’ variables of marital status, educational status, and professional seniority and through teachers’ variables of marital status, age, affiliated institution, branch, educational status, professional seniority, school type, administrator age, and administrator gender.

Keywords

Conflict, Conflict Management; Manager, Teacher, Conflict Management Style

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