Abstract:

This study was designed to compare the levels of taking personal initiative of school administrators who work in public and private schools with the perceptions of teacher. The sample of the study consists of teachers working in public and private schools in the centre of Konya in the 2018- 2019 academic year. The data were obtained randomly from 420 teachers through a scale within the framework of the quantitative research approach. The Personal Initiative Scale of School Administrators, developed by Akın (2012) and consists of 3 dimensions and 32 items, was used as a data collection tool in the study. In the analysis, it was observed that school administrators working in the private schools took more personal initiative than school administrators working in the public schools. In addition, in the light of the findings, it was determined that the levels of taking personal initiative of the private school administrators were higher in all sub-dimensions of taking personal initiative “self-starting, proactivity and persistency” and it has been concluded that there is a significant difference between public and private school administrators’ taking personal initiative levels.

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