Investigation of some variations of managerial behavior in terms of school administrators

Thepurpose of this research is to determine the managerial approaches demonstrated by school administrators working within the boundaries of Çivril District Government Primary and Secondary Schools and at the same time, this research aims to determine the level of school administrators' managerial behaviours consisting of scientific management approach, bureaucratic management approach, human relations approach, system approach, contingency approach, theory Z approach. Moreover, this research aims to determine whether school administrators' the highest and the lowest levels of managerial approaches differentiate or not suhproperties as gender, branch, education status, seniority, work duration at the current school and the number of teachers in the schools. The population of the research is the teachers working within the boundaries of Çivril District 37 Government Primary and Secondary Schools. 467 teachers working in these school sparticipated in the study. The personel information form and the scale of evaluation of managerial approaches of school administrators developed by Helvacı and Keçeci (2012) were used. In the analysis of data from the scales, SPSS program was used. T-test has been applied for determining teachers' opinions about managerial behaviours of school administrators and whether opinions differentiate or not on the basis of gender and branch variables. ANOVA is used to identify whether or not there is a significant relationship betweent eachers'opinions about managerial behaviours of school administrators and variables such as education status, seniority, work duration at the current school an the number of teacher in the school. Research findings Show that among the managerial approaches demonstrated by school administrators, the highest level is neo-classical approach and the lowest level is classical approach. In this context, acccording to research findings concerning managerial approaches demonstrated by school administrators, scientific and bureaucratic management approaches are in 'low' level; human relations, system approach and theory Z approachare in 'high' level; contingency approach is in 'middle' level. Moreover, It is found that teachers' opinions concerning to school administrators' scientific management approach didn't show a significant difference between such variables as gender, branch, seniority, work duration but showed a significant difference about the number of teachers. In addition, it is found that teachers' opinions concerning to school administrators' system approach didn't show a significant difference about gender and seniority however, showed a significant difference about branch, work duration,,the number of teachers. KeyWords: School Administrator, Managerial Approaches, Classical Management,Neo-Classical Management