An Examination Of School Principals’ Conflict Management Styles: Qualitative Analysis Study

Authors : Hayati Sağir, Nihan Turhan

Pages : 126-140

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Publication Date : 2023-04-30

Article Type : Research

Abstract :The purpose of this research was to analyse the opinions of school principals working in secondary schools on conflicts and conflict management. The research is a qualitative study using a case design. The study group was selected from among the secondary school principals in the Kağıthane and Eyüpsultan districts of Istanbul through the easily accessible case sampling of the purposeful sample. The study was carried out with a total of 20 school principals, including 10 secondary schools and 10 Imam Hatip secondary schools, in the 2021-2022 academic year. A semi-structured interview form was created as a data collection tool in the research. Code, categories and themes were developed through content analysis of the data collected in the research. As a result of this research, a total of 13 categories and 7 different themes were formed from these categories. These are the effect of conflicts on the future of the organization, the parties to the conflict, the issues that cause the conflict, the effect of conflict management, the relationship of conflict with personality traits, the effect of legislation and policy on conflict, and conflict management. The suggestion that emerged in this research is to ensure that school principals\' perceptions of conflict can be revealed by developing a questionnaire and monitoring the perceptions of school principals on conflict management at regular intervals. In this way, the conflict management styles of school principals will be determined.
Keywords : Okul Müdürü, Çatışma, Çatışma Yönetimi