Attitude of Teachers Towards the Managerial Styles of Administrators: Input in Improving Interpersonal Relations
Keywords:
Attitude of Teachers Towards the Managerial Styles of Administrators, Input in Improving Interpersonal Relations, Managerial Styles of AdministratrosAbstract
This study attempted to determine the managerial style of elementary school administrators and the corresponding attitude of teachers to these styles in the Division of Samar for SY 2001-2002. This study employed the descriptive-correlational and comparative method of research to assess the management styles employed by the administrators as perceived by teachers and administrators themselves and to determine the attitude of teachers towards the managerial styles based on the perception of the two groups of respondents in the elementary schools headed by principals in the Carline Districts of the Division of Samar for school year 2001-2002. As regards to the problems encountered by the administrators relative to the management style they employed, they assessed the given problems as “Slightly Felt '' with a grand mean of 2.132. The following problems obtained the higher weighted means: 1) Financial instability of teachers and administrators; 2) Lack of trainings on teachers’ and administrators’ efficiency and effectiveness enhancement; 3) Lack of teacher cooperation and participation in school programs and activities; 4) Lack of systematic way of sending communications to schools resulting to the delay of information and disorder of activities; and 5) Lack of close association and open communication between teachers and administrators. Both the administrators and teachers believed that the teachers had a neutral attitude towards autocratic and participatial style of management. Whereas, towards permissive style, they differed in their perceptions. The administrators perceived the teachers’ attitude to be favorable but the teachers perceived themselves to be neutral. Autocratic style of management is not significantly related to teachers’ attitude towards it. What the teachers exhibited in their behavior had nothing to do with the way their administrators managed them.
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