School managers'competence to motivate teachers in change process

The purpose of this investigation is to determine school managers' competence to motivate teachers in change process who are working at public primary and secondary schools in Uşak Province. This research is planned to determine if there are differentations of motivation competence in terms of demographic characteristics of teachers. The population of the study was composed of teachers working at public primary and secondary schools in the Usak province. The sample group consisted of 350 teachers through simple random sampling. In this study, the data collection tool as " school managers' competence to motivate teachers in change process " scale is used. The data obtained by the scale has been analyzed with SPSS software package. The total scores have been obtained from the scale for independent groups t-test analysis in the context of a variety of variables, one-way ANOVA. In the survey, it has determined that teachers' expectations in motivation competence from their principals in change process has been occured on the "quite" level. However, research on teachers' demographic characteristics taken as, gender, branch and seniority, education status and job type has achieved the results differ statistically according to motivation competence they expect from school managers. Keywords: School Managers, Change Process, Teachers, The Competence of Motivate