Encouragment of Teacher's Motivation in Managing Comprehensive Schools

The research was made in the year 2005 - 2006. It’s goal was to establish head’s of educational institutions used staff motivation means and ascertain if they satisfy personnel’s needs. The main tasks of this work are: to establish in which ways heads of educational institutions are achieving to improve teacher’s work quality; what are teacher’s needs; find out what defines the school as an attractive place to work; also establish which factors have influence to head’s of schools opinion building up the personnel’s motivation policy. These are the methods which were used for this research: 1) scientific psychological, pedagogical (educational) literature analysis; 2) interrogatory by questionnaires; 3) research data’s mathematical statistical analysis. There were 150 respondents who participated in this research, including 100 teachers from secondary schools of Lithuania and 50 heads of secondary schools of Lithuania (in town: Vilnius, Kaunas, Rokiškis, Alytus, Panevėžys, Marijampolė, Utena, Molėtai, Anykščiai). The results showed that leaders give most importance for stimulation by praise, and less importance for promoting. The leaders often make conditions to raise qualification and give possibility to use the newest literature and supplies to achieve better teacher’s work quality. But pedagogues prefer higher payment and acknowledgement. Most teachers’ dissatisfaction because of work settles bad administrative work and low social status. The chosen employees’ motivation system by school heads is usually influenced via comprehensive analysis of the situation and read literature. This research established that pedagogues more often then leaders mention that labor productivity and quality would increase if schools had more effective stimulations system. Gintarė Gavėnaitė, Master thesis: Encouragement of Teacher's Motivation in Managing Comprehensive Schools.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta