Abstract
<p style="text-align: justify;">The aim of this study has been to identify school managers’ leadership styles and levels in terms of teachers’ perceptions. The focus of the study includes primary, secondary and high schools in Şahinbey and Şehitkamil districts of Gaziantep. In the study, the selection of the sample, which consists of 228 teachers, was carried out by using the disproportionate cluster sampling method. The data have been collected via change leadership scale and multi-factorial leadership scale. For analysis of data Pearson Correlation coefficients have been used. According to the research results, teachers believe that among the multi-factorial leadership styles their managers show mostly transformational, transactional and change leadership behaviors, while they show laissez-faire leadership behaviors less frequently. It was also found out that there is a moderate relation between transformational and change leadership styles; a low-level weak relation between transformational and transactional leadership; and a low-level relation between transformational and laissez-faire leadership. On the other hand, there is a respectively low and meaningful relationship between change leadership and transactional leadership; a negative and very low relationship between change leadership and laissez-faire leadership. Finally, a low level relation has been detected between transactional leadership and laissez-faire leadership.</p>
Highlights
Leadership is one of the main concepts that is commonly discussed and investigated in the social sciences, especially in fields of management, psychology, sociology, and education
This study has aimed to investigate the relationship between school managers’ change leadership and multi-factorial leadership styles
According to the findings obtained from the study, school managers most of time show transformational, transactional and change leadership behaviors, while rarely showing laissez-faire leadership behaviors from multi-factorial leadership styles according to teachers’ perceptions
Summary
Leadership is one of the main concepts that is commonly discussed and investigated in the social sciences, especially in fields of management, psychology, sociology, and education. One of the reasons for this is that the reflection of leadership and priority has been different in every field (Bektas, Cogaltay and Sokmen, 2014). School managers are the ones who are in charge of school management and school business. According to Kul and Guclu (2010), a school manager’s duty is to use all human and material sources in the most effective way to keep the school alive and suited to its goals. School managers are the ones who facilitate communication among employees, coordinate employees, and by evaluating the performance of all activities, try to bring the school to an effective and successful level
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