The effect of positive management approach on the success of students at primary schools

The purpose of this research is to determine the effects of positive managment approach on the success of students at elementary schools in Malatya central province. We want to find out some questions like; how is positive management understood by administrators of the elementary schools, how is this understanding level being practiced at elementary schools and we also wanted to find out how are the students and teachers have been affected by the management knowledge of the administrators of schools.The universe of the resech consists of the elementary school teachers who work in the different schools of the central province of Malatya. 400 elementary school teachers who work in 30 different schools have been taken into the pattern of the reserch. The schools were chosen in acordence to their success in the education year 2006 ? 2007. 10 most successful elementary schools, 10 medium level successful elementary schools and 10 less successful elementary schools were choosen amoung the elementary schools in central province of Malatya as the the pattern of the research.In the reserch Positive Management Approach Questionare, which has 40 questions and five liker ? type scale, was used to get data. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science, 13) packet programme has been used in order to analyse the statistical datas determined at the research. frequency, Percent, Arithmetic Mean, Standart Deviation, Kruskal-Wallis, Pearson Correlation, Mann-Whitney U tests have been used for the evulation of the data, the upper limit of erronous ratio has been accepted as 0.05.According to the evaluation of data related to place of work; schools, which have been managed in acordence to the positive management approach, are found more successiful.Key Words: Positive Management, Administrator, Success.