Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 A graduate of Tehran University and lecturer at Farhangian University
2 Assistant Professor Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The educational ecosystem of the world is the arena of successive generations of learners, teachers and administrators with their unique needs and preferences. The efficiency and intelligent adaptation of the educational system with changes requires the identification of the preferences and approaches of managers with regard to the generational gap and diversity among them. Therefore, the current research aims to identify the behavior of school principals according to their generational diversity with the qualitative research method of narrative research in the data collection section and thematic analysis in the data processing section, with the purposeful sampling method on twelve generation X principals. Y, Alborz province and Tehran. The results of the research in eight main categories of general management dimensions, including system attitude, decision making, system development and improvement, conflict management, crisis management, capital management and priorities and preferred styles of managers, indicate the highest level of sharing between both generations. Managers in the knowledge management department are in system development in the categories of priority and preferred styles in management, no shared opinions and approaches have been reported, the greatest number of commonalities between the two generations is in the strategic attitude, crisis management and spiritual and material capital management.
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