ASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING, cilt.4, sa.4, ss.266-271, 2018 (Hakemli Dergi)
This study
aimed to investigate the relationship between school administrators’ in-house
communication and conflict management strategies based on physical education
teachers’ perceptions. The study sample consisted of 130 physical education
teachers employed at state schools in Bartin provincial center who volunteered
to take part in the study in a 2014-2015 academic year. "Interpersonal Communication Skills
Scale" and "Conflict Management Strategies Scale" were
implemented by teachers. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used in the
study to analyze whether the data displayed a normal distribution. Since the
data did were not distributed normally according to teachers' ages and
seniorities (p=.000<α = 0,05), non-parametric tests were used in
the analysis. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman-Rho were
used in data analysis. The margin of error was taken as 0.05. The study shows
that physical education teachers prefer avoidance strategy (χ=2,44±,494),
controlled strategy (χ=2,42±,623)
and solution-oriented strategy (χ=2,35±,473) respectively. As a result, the
high-level relationship was identified between school administrators'
interpersonal communication skills and conflict management strategies based on
physical education teachers' perceptions while no statistically significant
difference was determined in interpersonal communication skills and conflict
management strategies subscale scores based on teachers' seniority and age.