The sources of organizational power which schools managers use (Uşak city sample)

The purpose of this investigation is to determine the sources of organizational power which school?s Managers, who are working in Uşak city Government Primary Schools, use. This research aims to determine whether the teacher?s opinions of gender, educational status, branch and seniority differentiate or not on the basis of the organizational power evaluated in the dimensions of legitimate power, coercive power, reward power, expert power and charismatic power.This investigation area includes primary school teachers working in Uşak city borders. There are 175 government primary schools in the area of investigation and 1669 teachers are working in those official primary schools. The number of schools that will take place in the sample has been determined as 85, and the number of teachers are 296. ?The personel information form? and ?The Scale of the power source that Managers use? have been applied to the participants who qualify for the research. Datum are evaluated in the SPSS package.In order to identify whether there is a significant difference between teachers? gender and branch variables among the power source of primary school masters? use , t-test has been applied. To identify whether there is a significant relation depending on educaional state and seniority state or not, one-way anova has been applied.Research findings show that among the power source of Masters, who are working in Primary school, legitimate power is average level, coercive power is low level, reward power, expert power and charismatic power are high level.Key Words: Organizationla power sources, Primary School, School Manager