Teachers' views on school principals' leadership initiatives in complex systems

In a world where change is inevitable, with the influence of globalization, organizations are affected by the phenomenons such as change, uncertainty, unpredictability, continuity, learning, creativity, and adaptability. For organizational survival, it is imperative for the organizations that administrators have to be prepared for the outcomes of these circumstances.In order to meet the needs of an ever changing environment in an efficient and a constructive way, educational organizations have to renew themselves and leaders should be open to new leadership skills and methods. From this perspective, complexity leadership offers a new approach to school officials. The aim of this study is to determine the level of complexity leadership initiatives of school administrators through the utilization of teachers' feedback. In this study, screening model has been used. generated 328 teachers working at elementary schools in the city of Bahçelievler/Istanbul. The data consists of wievs of 328 elementary school teachers who work in 2013-2014 educational term in Bahcelievler/Istanbul. In order to collect the necessary data for the research, "Teacher Perceptions Concerning School Principals' Complex Leadership Behaviors Scale". has been used which is developed by the researcher. The study uses arithmetic average, standard deviation, t-tests, ANOVA, Krusal Wallis H-test and Mann Whitnesy U tests to interpret the results. The results of the study indicate that the complex system leadership initiatives portrayed by the school administrators are at an average level, while the complex system leadership initiatives influenced by those administrators are at a high level. The correlation analysis shows that there is a significant positive relationship between the level of complex system leadership initiatives demonstrated by the administrators and the level of initiatives influenced by those administrators on others. In other words, as administrators demonstrate higher leadership skills, their influence on others also increase. Keywords: School Principals, Leadership, Complexity, Complex Adaptive Systems, Leadership in Complex Adaptive Systems.