Leadership Behaviors of School Administrators, Performance Practices and Examination of Teacher Views on Institutionalization in Terms of Various Variables

Abstract

Many developments, such as globalization, rapid change in communication technologies, international competition and consumer expectations have influenced educational institutions as well as all other institutions. All these developments; forced schools need to be more creative, effective and capable of responding fastly to needs. For this main reason, it is of great importance that the personnel in the school are united around the organizational goals and that the students themselves are high in their devotion and commitment. This work; is a field-based study of school administrators' leadership behaviors, performance practices, and teacher involvement in institutionalization to determine what the consequences are in terms of various variables. The scales prepared for the research were applied to a total of 133 teachers and administrators working in all branches of a private educational institution in Istanbul. Considering the answers of the participants, the data were analyzed in the SPSS 15.0 statistical program, the hypotheses were tested and the research was completed by developing the results and recommendations. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the opinions of teachers differ according to various variables like age, gender, education status, duration of service on the perception of leadership, performance practices and institutionalization variables.