Abstract:
The study aimed to identify administrative communication styles of middle
school principals, and their relationship to organizational change from the
perspective of head departments in general education schools in Kuwait. The
study used the descriptive analytical methods to achieve its goals. It employed
two questionnaires, the first, which was designed to measure administrative
communication styles, consisted of )30( itemswhile the secondwas designated
to measure the organizational change for schools, and it consisted of )6(
items. The study was applied on a random stratified sample (n = 102) of head
departments.
Using the appropriate statistical tools, the study reached a number of
conclusions: )a( administrative communication styles arranged as follows:
The first was written communication, followed by oral communication, then
participatory communication, and finally ordered communication.The degree
of all administrative communication styles were medium, )b( the degree of
organizational change in middle schools were also medium, and )c( there were
no statistical significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.05)
in all study variables: social type, years of service as a head of department,
except scientific specialization (d) a positive correlation was found between
all administrative communication styles and organizational change