Motivation approaches of school managers expected by teachers

This study was conducted to determine the expected motivation approches of principal from the teachers point of view, and to investigate if there are differentations of motivation approaches in terms of demographic characteristics of teachers. The population of the study was composed of 1669 teachers working at public primary and secondary schools in the Usak province. The sample group consisted of 452 teachers through simple random sampling. In this study, the data collection tool developed by Başın as "teachers of the school principal to determine the approaches to motivate" scale is used. The data obtained by the scale was analyzed with SPSS 21.0 software package. The total scores obtained from the scale for independent groups t-test analysis in the context of a variety of variables, one-way ANOVA, Tukey HSD analysis was conducted to determine the difference between the groups when there is a significant difference. In the survey, it was determined that teachers expect approach school administrators high-level managerial motivation and psycho-social motivation approaches from their principals. However, research on teachers' demographic characteristics taken as, gender, branch and seniority, education status, and motivation approaches they expect from managers according to the working time in their school has achieved the results did not differ statistically.