Primary school principals’ crisis management skills

Abstract

Crisis affects organizations negatively by appearing in an unexpected time. Crisis also threatens educational organizations as they occur in all organizations. The process of crisis management on organisational basis concerns mostly the administrators who will manage in crises. This study aims at determining crisis management skills of primary school principals. This research, which was conducted by using a quantitative paradigm, was conducted with 404 teachers working in public primary education schools in Çanakkale in the 2011–2012 academic year. It employs a 31-item scale which is named “Crisis Management Skills Scale of Primary School Managers”, which was developed by Aksu and Deveci (New World Sci Acad 4(2):448–464, 2009). The scale constituted three sub-dimensions: Before crisis period, crisis period, and after crisis period. The alpha reliability coefficients calculated were:.95 for period before crisis,.95 for period of crisis, and.98 for period after crisis. Consequently, the school principals were found to be at moderate level of crisis management skills in all dimensions.