Liderança motivacional: o que o gestor escolar tem a ver com isto?

Abstract

At school, all have their responsabilities, their roles, their functions. Participation is necessary always in every day for all those involved in the school. This research aims to analyze the role of the school principal as a leader and as a motivator for his team. The research aims to answer the question: motivational leadership – what the manager has to do with this? – as well as the director of leadership influences the motivation of teachers and staff in the development of their work, if the manager encourages the participation of the whole school community in decision making, if he resolves conflicts with skill and if the director/manager searches the sucess of multiple learning of their students and how it happens. This research was participant, data were obtained through oral and written reports and questionnaire administered to students, teachers and school staff – in a state secondary school of the city Novo Hamburgo/RS. The results indicate that the Democratic School Management is in the deployment process and positive changes are taking place in that school community.