The Reasons of Negative Emotions that School Administrators Feel and How They Manage Them

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 36 - 42, 07.07.2020

Gizem Günçavdı Yaser Arslan Soner Polat

Abstract

Within the neoclassical theories of management, the human factor gained importance in organizations as one of the factors that affect productivity, fertility of human factor. Emotions are known to affect commitment of employees, their intention to leave the job and, shape organizational climate. Thus, it is important to take emotions into consideration in every type of organization, and educational organizations are one of them. Each stakeholders’ emotions are important for the organizations, and so are school administrators’. Thus, the aim of this study was to define the reasons of negative emotions that school administrators feel and how they manage them. Descriptive phenomenological design was used, and 13 school administrators participated in this study. The results showed that school administrators define negative emotions as the emotions that cause them to lose their motivation and make them feel bad. Also, they felt negative emotions which were fear, anger, stress, anxiety, and regret. In addition to these, the school administrators defined the reasons that make them feel negative emotions as work-related reasons and stakeholders related issues. Lastly, they explained that they showed introverted behaviours or outward behaviours when they dealing with negative emotions.

Keywords

Negative emotions, emotional management

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