The perceptions of secondary school teachers on the correlations between organizational deviation and strategic leadership: Sample of Izmir

The purpose of this study is to determine the views of secondary school teachers about organizational deviation, the relationship between this concept and directors? strategic leadership skills and related to this relationship to develop suggesstions for the practitioners and reseachers. The survey has been applied to 481 teachers working in 26 seondary schools within the baundaries of the İzmir Province in the 2012-2013 academic year. To collect the data for the research two inventories was used entitled as ?Organizational Deviation in Schools? and ?The Applies for Strategic Leadership of School Managers? ?. In data analysis frequency, percent (%), arithmetic average (x), Standard deviation (Ss) were cmouted, t-Test and Anova were used. Also the relationship between the Organzationl Deviation in Schools and The Applies for Strategic Leadership of School Managers? was determined by Pearson Correlation technique based on the data obtained. The results of the study have revealed that teachers are ?Seldom? towards deviant behaviors experienced in the schools and ?Successful but it should be improved? toward strategic leadership of school managers. According to the results in teachers? assesment of organizational deviance in their schools, there isn?t a significant relationship according to gender, education level, length of service and branch variable. According to marital status, there have been seen differences in individul deviance part of the organizational deviance measurement in schools and whole of the measurement. According to gender, education level and length of service there isn?t any significant relationship in teachers? assesment of secondary school principals? level of showing strategic leadership behaviors. But according to branch variable there has been found a significant difference in technical strategic leadership appliances and according to marital status there has been found a significant difference in strategic leadership appliances concerned with humans. On the other hand, it was found that there is a high, negative and significant correlation between the teachers perceptions of organizational deviance and their perceptions of strategic leadership. Organizational deviance behaviors in schools decrease as long as strategic leadership behaviors of secondary school managers increase. Key Words: Organizational deviance, strategic leadership