School managers emotion management competencies during change management

The purpose of this research is to determine the school managers emotion management competencies during an ongoing change management by getting teachers opinion. Additionally, this research aims to determine the school managers emotion management competencies weather it changes according to the teachers demographic properties such as gender, school type, seniority, educational status, working time in a school and branch or not. The population of the research consists of 388 teacher working within the boundaries of Manisa city, working in primary, secondary and public high school. A scale prepared by the researcher was carried out to teachers in order to determine the school managers emotion management competencies to get all the necessary data. "The Scale of Emotion Management Competencies in Change Process" consists of 21 items each five point likert scale which has three factors. The data was analyzed by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program. To analyze the data, t-test one way ANOVA test was used. According to the results of this research the emotion management competencies of the school administrators during a change, in the process of "preparation for the change", "during the change" and " institutionalization of the change" is on the "medium" level. It has been determined that teacher opinions related to emotion management of school administrators does not differentiate according to gender, school type, educational status and branch but vice versa differentiates according to seniority and working year at school.