A Headmaster’s Personality Specification (Expressiveness) in the Management Function of Human Resources in Education

Abstract

The article presents results of a research carried out among primary school teachers with a purpose of finding out the principal’s personality characteristics and types of personalities, which are expected and accepted by teachers. In this research average values of separate characteristics and personality types, through which the need for abandoning the traditional views is proved, were graded. These traditional views are obstructing the changes and achievement of the correct balance among the goals, needs and the personality expression of the principal, which is interfering into mutual relations with teachers, who are the key educational programme performers. It should point out the possible changes of carrying out manager tasks in an educational institution. It was established that teachers want a personality of highly emotional intelligence, having the key characteristics as: audio and oral communication skills, the ability of accommodation and creative response, self control, confidence, endurance and attitude towards a meaningful, goal centred function, effective cooperation and team work with proactive communication. This is the management which could release professional and personality potential of each individual and offer direct movement towards goal centred function and responsibility, which will be constructive according to the content and time, coordinated with expected results of all process participants