Leadership Sub-dimension Research Articles

Examinatıon of Student Control Ideologies and Leadership Behaviors of Physical Education and Sports Teachers in Terms of Different Variables

Purpose: Teachers are usually said to have problems about classroom management and student behaviors at instructional mediums. Each teacher develops a control mechanism of his or her own to overcome these problems. The aim of this study is to examine student control ideologies and leadership behaviors of physical education and sports teachers in terms of gender and job experience variables. Method: Participants of the study were 45 female, 69 male, totally 114 volunteer physical education and sports teachers working for Ministry of Education. Data collection tools used for the study was developed by Yılmaz (2007) and “Student Behavior Control Approaches Survey”. Data were analyzed by using T-test and MANOVA. Findings: As a result of the analysis, it was found out that there was a significant difference at supportive leadership sub-dimension in terms of gender at the comparison of gender and job experience variables. However, there was not any significant difference in terms of peremptory leadership. As for occupational seniority, there was a significant difference at peremptory leadership sub-dimension; nevertheless, there was no difference at supportive leadership sub-dimension. Result: Student control ideologies and leadership behaviors of physical education and sports teachers in terms of gender and job experience variables were analyzed in this study. The reason for having significant difference at supportive leadership between female and male teachers at the scale might stem from females’ being more understanding than males by birth. As to the results about occupational seniority variable, the reason for having significant difference at peremptory leadership sub-dimension might stem from teachers’ being more controller as they spend more time in their occupations.

Ortaöğretim Okulu Yöneticilerinin Etik Liderlik Davranışları ile Öğretmenlerin Örgütsel Bağlılıkları Arasındaki İlişki

The purpose of this research was to determine the ethical leadership behaviours of school administrators and organizational commitment of teachers. The study was a relational research model. The study was consisted of 590 branch teachers working in the secondary schools which are located in both Siirt center and its districts in 2009-2010. Ethical Leadership Scale was used to determine the principals' ethical leadership behaviours according to teachers’ point of view. In addition ‘Organizational Commitment’ scale developed by Balay (2000b) was also used to determine the organizational commitment levels of teachers. The result of the study indicated that there is negative and low relation between organizational commitment of teachers in terms of adaptation in respect to practices related to all dimensions of ethical leadership behaviours of school administrations. Also, there is a positive and medium level relation between the ethical leadership sub-dimensions such as tolerance, justice, responsibility, democracy and teachers’ identification commitment. Regression analysis indicated that the responsibility sub-dimension of ethical leadership behaviour positively predicted the identification commitment.