Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to determine the school administrators� tendencies towards change. The population of this descriptive study was comprised of a total of 212 school administrators, 116 of whom serve in primary schools and 96 of whom serve in secondary schools in the city centre of the province of Adiyaman, Turkey. In the study, appropriate sampling method was used and applied to 151 school administrators from these schools who agreed to participate as volunteers. School Administrators� Tendencies towards Change scale was used in order to measure the participating principals� tendencies towards change. As a result of the study, it was determined that school administrators were mostly entrepreneurs in the case of change, that they believe in benefits of a change, that they tend to maintain the status quo and meet change with moderate resistance. Overall, school administrators were mostly found to have tendency towards change. School administrators� tendencies towards change differed significantly in terms of variables of gender and educational level, while they did not differ significantly in terms of variables including area of expertise, type of task, seniority and type of school.

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