The approaches of school principals to motivate teachers (Uşak case)

The aim of this research is to designate the motivational approaches of principals according to the opinions of the teachers working in public primary schools. In the light of this general aim is determined whether the views of the teachers differ from one another with regards to factors such as sex, branch and seniority about the motivational approaches that the school principals implement. The scanning model was used in the research. It is the 1669 teachers working in the public primary schools located in the borders of the city of Uşak that comprise the population of the research. The experimental people are composed of the 452 teachers who were chosen by simple random sampling. In this research was used the scale of "determining the approaches of school principals to motive teachers" which was developed by the researcher to be used as a tool to gather data. The data gathered in the scale was analyzed by the SPSS 17.0 package program. For the independent groups was used the T-test or the one-sided ANOVA test in the analysis of the total data gathered from the scales in the context of various factors, whereas, in the event of significant difference, it was the Tukey HSD analysis that was used to determine the difference between the groups. At the end of the research, according to the views of the teachers, it was determined that the school principals implemented their organizational and administrative approaches and their psychosocial motivational approaches to a great extent. Apart from this, it was determined that the views of the teachers did not differ according to the factors of sex, branch and seniority. Keywords: SchoolPrincipals, Primary School, Teachers, Approaches To Motivation