The Effect of Administrators' Educational and Empirical Background on Their Style in Conflict Management from the Teachers Point of View

Abstract

This study was aimed to investigate the effect of on the job training , field of study , degree and years of experience on the administrators' conflict management style in the Girls' High schools and Pre – university schools in Shiraz Educational District Number one in 1386- 87. The method of this survey is casual – comparative, and the statistical population was the administrators and teachers of the above schools . The sample size was 55 administrators and 165 teachers . Two questionnaires have been administered among the sample groups . One of which was about demographic information and the other has been used to investigate conflict management styles . The questionnaire has face validity and its reliability was 0.845(Gronbach Alpha) . The results of analyzing data and testing them by MANOVA indicates that the experience has effect on the conflict management styles . And the experienced administrators uses more frequentlycollaboration style . Additionally to rank the dependent variables،Friedman analysis was used.The result shows the collaboration style has the highest rank and the avoidance style has the lowest rank .