Management of institutional change process in formal education (An application in secondary school in Nizip region)

At today?s accelerating change, depending on the environmental factors and the needs, operating constitutions need to change in order to survive and to achieve the performance level they desire. Institutional change is compulsory and inevitable for their productivity and effectiveness and so for their survival and growth. Adapting the changes in the environmental conditions and in the needs is among the prior requirements for the maintenance of the system and its expected outcomes. Main resistance to administrators? plan to change the institution?s politics, its technology, its construction or employee?s tasks comes from the employees who are going to be affected. Institutions can break that resistance by applying some methods. In this research, it was aimed to demonstrate the importance of administration by evaluation the administrative management process in the educational institutions. Therefore it is intended to illuminate the pace to develop the qualitative level in its change made by administrators. As a questionnaire `Survey of the Institutional Qualitative Level Scale in the Formal Education? and `Demographic Data questionnaire? were used. Universe of the research includes administrators, teachers and the other employees of the middle schools in Nizip District of Gaziantep City in 2012-2013 educational year. The responses of the teachers, administrators, and the other officers participated into the survey were examined regarding their perception of management of the changing process by comparing these responses with their educational levels, ages, sex, marital status, position, working status, and working time duration. At the end of this research, it was intended to determine perception of the administrators, teachers, and other staffs to the changing process in the educational institutions and also to reveal which variables they depend on and finally some suggestions have been done to appease the resistance to the change. Keywords: İnstitutional change , management of the change