Charismatic leadership behaviours and emphatic tendencies of the school principles according to the opinions of the primary school teachers

The opinions of the teachers working in the primary schools during 2014-2015 in Eyüp and Gaziosmanpaşa districts of İstanbul on leadership behaviors and empathic tendencies of their managers have been tried to be obtained with this relational study. The target population of the research is the teachers working in the primary schools during 2014-2015 in Eyüp and Gaziosmanpaşa districts of İstanbul. Leadership behaviors inventory first developed by Kouzes and Posner (1995) and adopted to Turkish by Korkmaz (2011) and empathic tendency scales developed by Katman (2010) have been elected for accumulating data. The analysis of the data has been performed via SPSS 22.0 package program. In the analyze of the data; percentage, arithmetic mean, one sample t-test and one-way analysis – ANOVA tests has been used. The conclusion of the research has shown that; teachers have stated that their primary school managers show their leadership behaviors in high level. The teachers have indicated that influencing and coping with challenges which constitutes the leadership behaviors is shown as being a model in the medium level, and providing opportunity and encouraging in the high level. The teachers have stated that they have no opinions regarding the empathy tendency levels of their managers. On the other hand they think that their managers have the most empathic tendency in communication and less in identification. According to the opinions of the teachers working in the primary school, the opinions of the teachers for the leadership behaviors of the primary school managers and for their empathic tendencies have medium level positive correlation. In the opinions of primary school teachers regarding the leadership behaviors and emphatic tendencies it is seen that there is no significant difference as to their gender, marital status, years of service and education level. In the opinions of the teachers regarding the empathic tendencies of their teachers; there is a positive significant difference in favor of associate degree teachers in the education level of the teachers.