School principles' leadership styles and sense of humor

This research examines the relationship between school principles' leadership styles and sense of humor. The sample of the study consists of 49 school principals and 103 assistant principals who works at kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. Data were collected via two different scales. One of the scales is "Leadership Behavior Scale" developed by Kouzes and Posner (1995) and adopted into Turkish by Korkmaz (2010). And the other scale is "Humor Styles Survey" developed by Babad (1974) and adopted into Turkish by Recepoğlu (2011). The result of the research shows that participants mostly use confirmatory humor and non-humorous style, productive social humor, rejecting humor and wry humor styles. The mean scores in all leadership training managers to conduct their leadership behavior is high and it is seen that the highest mean score is encouraging leadership behavior. It is seen that male education directors has shown more becoming model, inspiring, coping with difficulties, acting, encouraging leadership behaviors comparing female education directors. Keywords: Humor, Humor Styles, Leadership, Leadership Styles, Charismatic Leadership