Cultural leadership behaviors of the primary school principals

This study was carried out in order to analyze the primary school principals? and teachers? perception of the cultural leadership behaviors of the primary school principals regarding the personal and vocational qualities of the principals and certain features of the school in which they work, and in order to develop suggestions based on the findings. ?Personal Information Form? Şişman (1994) and ?The Scale for Cultural Leadership Behaviors of the School Administrators? Yıldırım (2001) were used as data collection tools. The scale tool used in the study was applied to 51 school principals and 910 teachers working in primary schools randomly selected in four central districts (Konak, Buca, Karşıyaka and Bornova) of İzmir. Arithmetic average, standard deviation, t- test, one-way anaysis of variance (F), Mann-Whitney U Test, Kruskal Wallis and Scheffe Test were made us of in the analysis of the study. These findings were attained in the study: The perceptions of the primary school principals for their own cultural leadership behaviors are at a higher level than those of the teachers. The perceptions of the primary school principals for their own cultural leadership behaviors indicate no significant discrepancy in terms of gender, age, seniority, vocational seminars, training of educational administration, social-economic atmosphere of the school, the school size and school type variables. The perceptions of the primary school teachers for their school principals? cultural leadership behaviors indicate significant discrepancy in terms of gender, age, seniority, training of educational administration, social-economic atmosphere of the school and school type variables. However, the perceptions of the primary school teachers for their school principals? cultural leadership behaviors indicate no significant discrepancy in terms of vocational seminars or school size.