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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.814999 THE CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS WHILE CONFLICTING WITH THEIR SUPERVISORS Gülnar Özyildirim1i, Kemal Kayikçi2 Department of Educational Sciences, 1 Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economy, Faculty of Education, Akdeniz University, Turkey Associate Prof. Dr., Department of Educational Sciences, 2 Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economy, Faculty of Education, Akdeniz University, Turkey Abstract: Conflict is everywhere as there are conflicts at educational organization. One of the most affected groups from conflicts is administrators who are a bridge between teachers and parents, supervisors. The aims of this study are to determine which strategies the school administrators use and how often they use these strategies and whether their strategies change according to their genders, educational situations and managerial status. 370 school administrators participated in this study and they were applied Organizational Conflict Management Instrument developed by Putnam and Wilson. Lisrel 9.0 and SPSS 20.0 programs were used during analysis. As a result, compromising strategy is the most used one while dominating is the less used strategy by school administrators while they were conflicting with their supervisors. Although the frequency of avoiding and dominating strategies differ according to their genders significantly, there aren’t any significant differences among administrators in terms of their educational situations. Their reasons for conflict management strategies can be examined through qualitative research method. Keywords: school administrators, supervisors, conflict, conflict management strategies Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 1 Gülnar Özyildirim, Kemal Kayikçi THE CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS WHILE CONFLICTING WITH THEIR SUPERVISORS For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/834 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 2