تاثير باورهاي نظارتي مديران مدارس ابتدايي بر سبكهاي مديريت تعارض آنان

The Effect of Supervisory Beliefs on Conflict Management Styles of the Primary School Principals

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.