Participations in Decision Making, Desires For Participation, Job Satisfactions and Conflict Management Styles of Secondary Education Teachers

Abstract

The purpose of this research study is to define teachers’ opinions who work at secondary education schools on the state of participating in decision-making process, demands of participating, job satisfactions and styles of conflict management and whether there is a significant relationship between these opinions. The population of the research, which is realized in the survey model, consists of the teachers who work at the secondary education schools in Istanbul. The research sample was formed by 516 teachers who were specified by the method of stratified sample component sampling and surveyed. The data was collected by means of the revised ‘Decision Involvement Analysis Questionnaire’, ‘Job Satisfaction Survey’-which was used for the fist time- and the retranslated ‘Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory II-B Form’. Validity and reliability of the surveys and factor and item analysis were done again. The results of the research are: 1) the teachers participate in the decision-making process rarely and they are willing to participate, 2) job satisfactions of the teachers are low, 3) they use integrating, compromising, avoiding, obliging and dominating in order from the most to the least while managing the conflict, 4) there are significant differences in the opinions of teachers, 5) there are positive relationships between the opinions about participating in the decision-making process, job satisfaction and conflict management.