Effective components in evaluation of the performance of the managers of elementary schools

The aim of this study is to determine the effective components in evaluation of the performance of elementary school managers. This study was Research and Development in term of aim and was descriptive survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population of this study was the managers of elementary school of Kerman province and the sampling was of clustering type. As the statistical population was 3191 people, the sample volume was determined as 344 people based on Morgan table. Data collection method was determined by field study and the instrument was researcher-built questionnaire, the interview and documents of the evaluation of manager's performance. To determine the validity of the questionnaire, content validity and construct validity (explorative factor analysis) was use and to determine its reliability, Cronbach's alpha was applied. The calculated value for KMO test was 0.97 and showed that sampling of this research is adequate. Based on the results of factor analysis, the first factor is interpersonal relations determining about 0.18 of the variance. The flexibility more than 0.16 and customer about 0.8 determine the variance of important factors matrix. Among the required factors, the knowledge and skill and belief principle each determine less than 0.2 of the variance. Totally, 12 recognized factors determined a considerable percent of the variance (71%). Based on the results of factor analysis, we can say that the interpersonal relations, flexibility, customer based relations and continuous improvement are four important factors among the factors determining about 48.5% of the variance.