Reviewing the relation of information technology with management styles among the managers of Shiraz high schools

Abstract

As we are in information era, information technology is becoming comprehensive in light of communication technology and is changing the world, and also bring about a broad view to the world, which affected the whole dimensions of 21st human life, including: political, military, economic, social, cultural and educational, and maybe it has the greatest influence on educational dimension. For this purpose, educational system undertakes the tremendous responsibility in order to applying, guide and direct the technological evolutions. In this regard, the manager is a key person in this system, who should be along with this tremendous evolutions to do his/her job in the era of explosion of information, in order not to be separated from this phenomena of the century. Reviewing the relation between information technology with management styles in Shiraz high school has been investigated in this paper. Two questionnaires have been used in this study, one author-made, which is related to the IT questions, that is responded by managers and the other one is related to the leadership styles, that is fulfilled by teachers. The statistical population consisted of managers and teachers of four educational and training areas of Shiraz. They have been selected by use of clustering method. The questionnaires have been analyzed by use of SPSS software. The results indicated that there is meaningful different between the average information technology scores and the management styles of managers. There is meaningful relation between information technology and arbitrary style. However, there is no meaningful difference between the average scores of managers’ educational documents and information technology. Finally, there is no meaningful relation between managers generic state and information technology.