B. Shabani Varaki; A. Pourafshari
Abstract
This research was carried Out to imvestigate the effect of the supervisory beliefs of primary school principals on their conflict management styles. Using an ex-post-facto design, two questionnaires, Measurement of Supervisory Beliefs and Measurement of Conflict Management Styles, were used to gather ...
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This research was carried Out to imvestigate the effect of the supervisory beliefs of primary school principals on their conflict management styles. Using an ex-post-facto design, two questionnaires, Measurement of Supervisory Beliefs and Measurement of Conflict Management Styles, were used to gather the required data. The data were analyzed by using Manova procedures. The results indicated that supervisory beliefs were functional in adopting conflict management styles on the part of the principals. It means that principals who had indirect supervisory beliefs used first and foremost cooperative styles, to be followed by compromise and accomodating styles. Principals having participatory supervisory styles were found to use compromise, accomodating, and cooperative styles, respectively, whereas principals subscribing to direct supervisory beliefs preferred to use avoidance and competition styles, showing no tendency toward using collaborative style.
J. Baharestan
Abstract
In this research, on the basis of Thomas’ five point scale (1977: 98-102) a survey asking for the opinions of the high-school principals in Yazd for the academic year 1380- 81 (2001/2002) was conducted. The main focus of the research was to find out how principals go about conflict management. ...
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In this research, on the basis of Thomas’ five point scale (1977: 98-102) a survey asking for the opinions of the high-school principals in Yazd for the academic year 1380- 81 (2001/2002) was conducted. The main focus of the research was to find out how principals go about conflict management. The styles under survey were as follows: Forcing and Dominance, Accomodation, Avoidance, Compromising, and Collaboration. These styles determine to what extent the principals utilize their personal opinions in conflict management and how much they accept the opinion of others. From a total population of 102 subjects (53male, 49 fenale) 60 principals (30 male, 30 female) were randomly selected for the survey. The data obtained were analyzed by using Fisher’s Z Test utilizing SPSS statistical software. A questionnaire consisting of 30 items in likert-type format was used, The items were constructed on the basis of Thomas theory, Rahim’s (1990) questions, and S. Robin’s questionnaire. The results of the study show the ranking of the styles advocated by the principals to be as follows: 1) collaboration, with 23 points; 2) compromising, 22 points; 3) accomodation, 15 points; 4) dominance, 13 points; 5) avoidance, 12 points. The results exhibit partial simlarities to those conducted in Iran and neighboring countries.