The Perception of High School Students About Managerial Style of Teachers

Abstract

From the point of view of education, management is a system of concepts, methods, tools of orientation and leadership, coordination, used in achieving the objectives of education, at the level of expected performance. Management, in its current approach, finds a specific application in the field of education management, as a complex action of directing, designing and evaluating the training, development of the personality of each individual, according to formulated goals. The present study aims to identify the managerial style of teachers in an Arad high school, respectively which is the predominant managerial style, agreed by students. In this sense, the main tool used to identify the managerial style of secondary school teachers was a questionnaire consisting of 35 items in 5 steps of response on a likert scale. The results showed that although the authoritarian managerial style, from the point of view of holistic perception, is less agreed by students, when they relate to their favorite teacher, there is a weighted increase of 10 percent of this style.