Teachers’ and principals’ views on principals’ characteristics and importance of principal’s characteristics in chaos

Abstract

Leaders’ characteristics, leaders’ management style, and leaders’ philosophy influence success and productivity of organization, because leaders are responsible primarily from all processes and events that take place in organization. Administrators are certainly one of the most important factors to create organizational culture. Organizations’ success, creating a strong organizational culture, continuity of that culture is associated directly with administrator’s characteristics, behaviors and management style. If principals cannot manage crisis situations and chaos in work environment, that organization should not function. Aim of the study is that to determine views of teachers’ and administrators’ on school principals’ characteristics that empowering school culture. School principals’ using effective communication techniques, behaving proactive, being fair, objective, self-confident are critically important for organizations, teachers, students and families. Responsibility of management is major, administrators should be aware of administrators’ influence power on organization and organization members. Administrator regulations should be revised. Personality tests should be applied to administrator candidates rather than written and oral examination.