RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS' COMPETENCE BELIEFS ON INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND THEIR LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 236 - 246, 30.06.2017

Hanifi Parlar

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.480

Abstract

Purpose- In this
study, it was aimed to reveal the relationship between school principals'
competence beliefs on innovation management and their leadership behaviors.  

Methodology-
Teachers working at the high schools located in Üsküdar district of
Istanbul province constituted the sample of the study that was carried out with
the relational screening method, one of quantitative research methods. In the
study, data were collected with the school principals' leadership style
inventory and innovation management at schools scale and analyzed using the
SPSS program. In the
analysis of the data, descriptive statistics such as arithmetic mean and
standard deviation were calculated, and the t-test, one-way analysis of
variance (ANOVA), Scheffe’s test, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation
Coefficient and simple linear regression analysis were used.

Findings- According to
the research results, it was observed that teachers' competence beliefs on
innovation management were not significantly different between male and female
teachers by the gender variable and age variable. On the other hand, the
organizational culture and structure sub-dimension scores were in favor of teachers
aged 40 and older.It was observed that they were not significantly different
between teachers with different seniority levels by the seniority variable and
between teachers with different educational levels by the educational status
variable.

Conclusion- It was
determined that innovation management competencies consisting of four different
sub-dimensions had a significant predictive effect on transactional leadership
behaviors consisting of two sub-dimensions and transactional management
sub-dimensions consisting of five sub-dimensions.

Keywords

School administrator, innovation management, leadership behaviors

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