Özet:

Organizations may occasionally face extraordinary situations due to their characteristics. These situations that can cause trouble to organizations often come to us as a crisis. A crisis is expressed as a complex phase in which a business or event passes, a difficult situation to get out, sudden developments in the direction of disruption, and a dangerous moment. In order for the organization to be able to overcome the crisis with the minimum damage and even benefit from this environment, it is necessary to analyze the causes, effects and directions of the crisis in detail with all dimensions, to base the results of the analysis on healthy data, to address the necessary measures for the crisis in a timely and applicable manner. Leadership is a concept that has diverse characteristics in terms of personality characteristics, organizational roles, behaviors, interaction patterns, followers’ perceptions and their influence on them. The first person to be defined as a leader in the schools is the first to think about the school managers. It was wondered what the leadership characteristics of school managers and their skills in crisis management are, whether there is a relationship between their leadership styles and the crisis processes in schools. The school is a dynamic organic structure. This dynamic and organic structure requires the environment manager to observe the state of innovation with an open perspective and to provide a dynamic transformation with projects that will make a difference in the school. One of the key names of an institution is that the expected level of crisis management skills and leadership styles are considered to be important in the creation of qualified educational institutions. In short, this study assessed the relationship between crisis management skills and school managers' leadership styles. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between school managers’ leadership behaviors and crisis management skills.