The relationship between the decision-making process and school climate of primary schools

The aim of this research is to determine if there is a linkage between the opinions ofprimary school teachers? on the schools? weather in which they work and their ideas on thecapacity of manager on decision-making. This work also aims to improve the organizationalweather of primary schools and to give advices in order to improve decision-making skills ofmanagers.The ideas of primary school teachers in Ordu are used in making this research. 318primary schools are taken as subjects. `Organizational weather criterion? and `decision-making skills of school directors? scales are used in order to make data collection.The results of the research in brief are;1- Teachers? opinions on schools? weather at which they work are generally positive.2- Teachers? opinions on schools? weather at which they work do not differ due to theirtotal employment time, age, gender, education and branches.3- Teachers? opinions on decision-making skills of managers are generally positive.4- Teachers? opinions on decision-making skills of managers do not differ due to theirtotal employment time, age, gender, and branches.5- The opinions of teachers on school directors? decision-making skills differ throughtheir employment. This difference is that; teachers who had had 1 to 5 years employment timehave more positive thoughts on the grounds of school director?s decision-making, determiningand solving problems, and super visionary skills than those who had had 6 to 10 yearsemployment time.6- Primary school teachers? ideas on managers? decision-making skills differ due to theireducation levels. This difference is between the teachers who had graduated from a master?sdegree, a teachers? college, a training college, or from another institution. Teachers have morepositive opinions on managers? decision-making abilities; than the ones who graduated from amaster?s degree program. In other words; as teachers? education degrees increase, theirexpectations on school directors? capacity of decision-making increases too.7- There is an affirmative linkage as P<0.01 between teachers? ideas on their schools?weather and their ideas on school directors? decision-making skills. As teachers? positivethoughts on their school weather increases; their positive thoughts on managers? decision-making skills increases too. This situation is binding for all subgroups.