Managers and future educational managers-character traits

Abstract

This paper represents the synthesis of some investigations presented in the literature, regarding the character traits of managers and future educational managers. Numerous authors have demonstrated that at the basis of good educational management, a primary role is played by the profile and character traits of the person in charge of the leadership position at the level of the school unit. The paper also contains the results of a personal research, through which I proposed to investigate self-esteem, perseverance, personal autonomy, self-acceptance and acceptance of others, and, within current managers and future educational managers. The research was carried out using a set of questionnaires containing: personal autonomy assessment questionnaire, Rosenberg self-esteem interpretation questionnaire, 1965, the scale of acceptance of others, and, the Emanuel M self-acceptance scale. Berger and the interpretation questionnaire of the level of perseverance. The research was attended by 40 people of different ages, including 20 current managers and 20 emerging managers. The paper is organized in three chapters, the first two of which approach the theoretical part, related to character, character traits, but also what it means to be an educational manager, and the third is the practical part, the research part, where we presented the objectives, the assumptions, the sample, the methodology used and the results of the research, the, where we compared the results obtained by managers and future managers in terms of character traits.