Research on high school sports directors' conflict management skills

This research has been done with the aim of defining the sports high school principals' conflict managing skills. The sports high schools that are whole with their managers, teachers, personals, students and other sharers, should be thought as organizations that conflicts can be seen. For this reason, there may be problems not only among students but also teachers and managers. In the problem solving process by undertaking a more effective role, like in all organizations, in educational organizations people should put their differences aside and behave appropriately to the group norms in order to keep a harmonious working process. To justify and reach the research to its aim, the literature searching has been done about the topic by the researcher. 150 manager of 50 sports high schools that offer educational service in Turkey, constitute the border of the study. The data collecting tools "Conflict Management Behaviour Styles Scales" and "Conflict Management Solution Strategies Scales" have been developed by M. Afzalur Rahim (1992). The research done by scale method, has been applied to 137 manager of 48 sports high schools that offer educational service in Turkey, constitute the border of the study. The data collecting tools "Conflict Management Behaviour Styles Scales" have been developed by M. Afzalur Rahim (1992). The research done by survey method has been applied to 137 manager of 48 sports high school. The research has been applied directly on the border and IBM SPSS 21.0 packet program has been used in the analysis of the data gained at the end of the research. Of the three-part scale, in the first part personal information, in the second part the variants that designate the behaviour ways in the conflicts and in the third part the variants that determine the solution strategies against the conflict have been mentioned. The volue of the scale of the conflict management behoviour ways (Cronbach's Alpha) has been found a=,873 and the value of the solution strategies scale has been found a=,791. In the analysis of the data, frequency, percentage, arithmetical mean, standart deviation, variance analysis and t-test have been used. The signifance level of the statistical anlysis has been taken as ,05. At the end of the research, it has been detected that the sports high school managers use behaviour ways effectively during the conflict and their skills to use soketion strategies against the conflicts are at a high rate. However it is found that as long as the managers' Professional and management seniority decrease, their behavioural ways against the solution strategies decline.