Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2016

Abstract

The primary aim of the leadership mission is to locate the institutions into the desired point by means of providing all the required needs. Leaders undertaking this mission look for diverse solutions in a possible chaotic situation on the way to goals. The solution that the leader will find is directly related to his psychology. The structure of personality which is reflected within psychological approaches shows different characteristics of every human being. So, the leaders bearing different personality characteristics will be representing diverse leadership approaches as well. The success of the leaders undertaking the mission of advancing the institutions may be attained by being aware of the owned personality characteristics. The leader who is aware of his or her own personality characteristics might possibly analyse the leadership approach that he or she adopts. With all these in mind, this study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between the personality characteristics of school directors and the leadership approaches they adopt. The personality characteristics and the adopted managerial approaches reflected by the directors with different personalities have been identified by means of considering different variables. The study is based on a survey design. The sample of the study is composed of 298 school directors employed in the central counties of Mersin City. The data of the study was collected through scales on personality characteristics and leadership approaches. The data transferred into the computer was analysed and interpreted by means of statistical techniques. According to the findings of the study, it was established that while the school directors represent such personality characteristics successively as easy-going, open to innovation, extrovert, self-disciplined, and emotionally stable, they represent traits of leadership in the shape of transformative, interactionist, and emancipatory. Besides, there stands a significant relationship between the personality characteristics of school directors and their leadership approaches. Lastly, it was suggested that there exists a positive relationship at medium level between the total score of personality characteristics reflected by the school directors and their multidimensional leadership approaches.