The relationship between managerial skills and group effectiveness skills of primary school administrators

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between managerial skillsof primary school principals and group effectiveness. The research is focuses on teacherperceptions of the `relationship between management skills of primary school managers andgroup effectiveness?. Significant differences between teacher perceptions and their personalcharacteristics as well management skills and group effectiveness were found. Surveymethod was used.The data were collected form 401 teachers in the province of Çanakkale through aninstrument developed by Quast, L.N. & J.F. Hazucha (1992). The data analyzed with SPSSprogram. Managerial skills and group effectiveness skill sorted by their perceivedimportance, frequencies, percentages, means, and standart deviations were calculated. T-testto compare gender differences, ANOVA for multi-group comparisons, and Fisher?s LSDconducted to find out which groups significantly differ from each other.In this study, to what extend the managerial skills and group effectiveness as well aswhether there was a relationship between managerial skills and group effectiveness wereinvestigated. Teachers reported their level of agreement with the statements in these areas as?agree.?The findings indicated that teachers rated higher the principals on their managerialskills when compared to group effectiveness. Initiating structure rated lowest in principalmanagerial skills. However, overall, teachers rated principals high on both skills. There wasa positive relationship between principal managerial skills and group effectiveness skills.The study contributes to our knowledge basis by pointing out that here is a positiverelationship between managerial skills and group effectives in primary schools.Key Words: Educational administration, principals, primary schools, managerialskills, group effectiveness.