Avoidance Behaviors of School Managers in Uncertain and Chaotic Environments

Abstract

Today many organizations are trying to survive in chaotic, complex and uncertain environments and these environments create more obscure for individual and/or organization. While the state of certainty disappears with the increasing rate of change, uncertainty spread like a storm to our experiences. Individuals, groups, organizations and even societies in the public and intellectual sphere have to take these uncertainties and risks in the decision making process into consideration. Moreover together with developments in the global dimension, organizations are required to find new forms of leadership. In almost every area the leaders are expected in the chaotic environments created by risk and uncertainty to act more consciously and consistently than others and manage the process as possible with confidence. Educational managers as also being a leader should have the sense of change and should keep followers’ motivations high in case of unexpected things happen. How school administrators perceive uncertainty and how they differ in perceiving these situations? In this study, 58 school administrators participated voluntarily to the process of the determination of what individual level uncertainty behaviors are and which sub-categories (gender, age and education level) affect these perceptions. And based on the study results we discussed the effect of enhancing the school principals’ level of coping with uncertainty on constitution of learning together, sharing, cooperation and team spirit.