The relationships between public training center management's leadership behaviours and their worker's motivation level

As a result of this research, some information has been gathered about how national education centres teachers evaluate their managers' leadership behaviour, the effect of these behaviours on teachers' motivation and if all these differ or not according to teachers' personal qualities. It's been thought that employees motivation is important to make national education centres more functional. In this context, the reasons which cause lack of motivation should be defined and removed. It's been thought that this research is important because it will identify the motivation problems sourced from leadership behaviours. The data obtained in quantitative part have been evaluated through sample survey. General survey sampling has been used among other survey sampling methods. The teachers who work in national education centres on Europe part of İstanbul constitute research population. 142 teachers who have been selected among the teachers working in national education centres on Europe part constitute research sample. A questionnaire have been implemented on the teachers who work in national education centres on the stage of data collection. As a means of data collection "Leadership Behaviour Description Questionnaire" which was prepared for the research Change-Centred Leadership: An Extension of The Two Dimensional Model (1991) by Ekvall and Arvoren and translated by Tengilimoğlu, has been used in this research. This questionnaire was also used by researcher himself in 2005 to determine the leadership behaviour description questionnaire. At the end of the research, it has been identified that there is a positive relation between leadership and motivation. According to Manager Behaviour Scale it has been determined that there are significant differences between age, education status and working time in the organization, a meaningful difference is not recognized for other variables.. On Motivation Scale, it has been determined that there are significant differences on marital status and education variants.