Abstract:

Educational organizations are institutions with a high level of social interaction and need for change. In these organizations, managers who tend to change are concerned about re-defining their role needs and being active. This is why the leaders need to take the initiative. It is also important to work in the field of education management, taking initiatives that play a role on organizational effectiveness; to determine the contribution and efforts of school managers beyond their role needs. The need for school managers to deal with the tendencies of change and taking personal initiatives in a single study and applying to the opinions of school managers is also needed to fill this deficiency in the field of educational organizations, management and organizational behavior. This study, according to the directors’ opinions, aims to examine the relationship between their trends of change and the levels of personal initiative. The research is designed with a correlational model. The data of the study was collected from the managers of public schools in Malta in the 2021-2022 educational year. The data was collected with the "Change Trends Scale for School Managers" and the "Personal Initiative Scale in School Managers". The data was first taken by the arithmetic average, then the correlation analysis and finally the regression analysis. The study found that the tendencies of exchange and personal initiative levels of managers in educational organizations were “usually high”. The conclusion has been that there is a meaningful relationship in the positive direction, in the middle level, between the trend of change of managers and the level of personal initiative. It also revealed that the tendencies of change of managers again pushed them to take their own personal initiative. According to these findings, it is recommended to remove the obstacles to the initiative of the managers that are necessary for the occurrence of change.

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