Relation between the levels of political skill of school administrators and their skills of using informal communication

This research has been carried out for the purposes of determine the relation between the level of political skills of school administrators and their skills of using informal communication. Descriptive relational scanning model has been used in the research. The scales of "Political Skills" and "Informal Communication at School" have been utilized as assessment instruments. The universe of the research consists of 436 principals at all public primary, elementary and high schools at the city center of Batman province. The sample of the research includes 211 administrators selected by means of simple random sampling. The findings of the research have been organized by package programme and the frequency tables, homogeneity statistics, validity and reliability analysis, One Way ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis and correlation analysis have been tabulated and interpreted. According to the research results, school principals have high-level political skills. It has been found out that they resort to sincerity at most and to social skilfulness at least among the sub-dimensions of political skills. The highest perception in informal communication has been seen in the sub-dimensions of "the Frequency of Use of Informal Communication" and "the Positive Consequences of Informal Communication". It can be said that administrators are wary of using the other dimensions of informal communication. It has been seen that the type of school and the working time at school do not make remarkable difference in political skills and informal communication. Significant differences have been observed relating to the seniority variable in the sub-dimensions of social skilfulness and interpersonal effect. In the last correlation analysis, a positive, low-level and significant relation has been determined between the overall situation and sub-dimensions of political skills and the frequency of use of informal communication and its positive results.