Perceptions of Anatolian High School teachers in İzmir province towards corporate reputation of their schools and leadership qualities of their school managers

The purpose of the study was determined as: A current and reliable measurement means which would be used to appoint how teachers doing duty on Anatolian High Schools perceive their schools' reputations is to be improved; reputation level of Anatolian High Schools is to be appointed by using Questionnaire developed; it is confirmed how schools' reputation is affected by various changeables and it is revealed what a relation between school managers ans school's reputation is by appointing leadership styles. While the population consists of 4259 teachers who do duty on Izmir Province 's Anatolian High Schools, the sample representing the population consists of 376 teachers determined by proportional stratified sample method. While a current and reliable measurement means occurring from 29 items was developed as to measure school's reputation as data collection tool on the study, Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire was used as to appoint leadership styles of school managers. According to the result of the study, the reputations of Anatolian High Schools are perceived as level 'well' by teachers. These perceptions vary in teachers' gender, educational level and martial status. Leadership styles that Anatolian High Schools' managers have got are respectively transformational leadership, transactional leadership, management leadership with exception as from highest point to lowest point. Teachers' perceptions related to leadership styles of school managers vary in gender of teachers, seniority and martial status. There is middle level positive relation between leadership styles of school managers and school reputation. According to linear multi regression analysis made, variance which leadership styles explained it related to school reputation was gotten as 54.9% in order to appoint how leadership styles of school managers explain school reputations chosen as dependent variable. According to the result of regression analysis, regression equality related to be predicted in terms of school reputations ' leadership styles is stated in the way that; School reputation=66,753-0,718 management leadership with exception + 0,606 transformational leadership+0,467 transactional leadership.