Authority relationships constitute an integral part of life in formal school organizations. The essence of most student-teacher, teacher-administrator, subordinate-superior, or parent-teacher relations is the authority component. Like this, the author...
Authority relationships constitute an integral part of life in formal school organizations. The essence of most student-teacher, teacher-administrator, subordinate-superior, or parent-teacher relations is the authority component. Like this, the authority is very important concept in schools.
Now, the authority comes under challenge and the degree of the exercise of the authority comes down in school organizations. Added to this, the meanings of the authority and its synonymous concepts are mingled with and misused by many individuals now and then.
The purpose of this study was to examine the essence of the authority, to have a view of the authority, and to present the alternative plans to raise the degree of the exercise of the authority in school organizations.
The main results of the study are as follows : They accounted for difference between the authority and its synonymous concepts such as power, influence. and authoritarianism. Though the degree of the exercise of the authority comes down, there be skeptical of the existence of society without the authority. On the contrary it should be to be raised in the characteristics of school organization. And so it was suggested that alternative plans are to exercise what types of the authority, to choose which situations to be used for the authority, and to understand how methods to be used for the authority in school organizations.