Abstract:
This study was conducted for the purpose of determining the views on management
of diversity of the administrators and the teachers who work in Fine Arts and Sports High
Schools. The sample group of the study consisted of 12 administrators and 70 teachers
working in the fine Arts and Sports High Schools in province of Elazig, Usak, Trabzon,
Corum and Eskisehir. In order to determine the views of the sample group, a scale
developed by Balay and Saglam (2004) was used and the data obtained was analyzed in
the SPSS package program. In this study it was determined that managers didn’t
discriminate according to sexes, that there was a decrease in views of the managers and
teachers that personal attitudes and behaviors and the administrative practices and
principles were managed positively with their growing ages and that there was no
difference in views of the study group regarding the diversity management in their schools
according to their education status, vocational superiority, total service periods in
management, service status and vocational field variants. In conclusion, it can be
concluded that the differences between the administrators and the teachers in these
educational institutions have a positive impact on the direction of improving the quality of
education and that the employees’ beliefs, origins, cultural, etc. differences provide an
advantage for these institutions and finally there were no discrimination in their
administrative concepts.
