Teachers’ Impression management tactics

Impression management includes tactics that people make use in order to manage their impression on others’ minds. Staff relationships and identifying tactics which teachers use to manage their impressions has considerable importance in schools. Hence, the purpose of this qualitative study was to identify teachers’ impression management tactics with thematic analysis. Data collection instrument was semi-structured interview using a sample of 22 teachers in girls’ high schools in Semnan, Mahdishar and Sorkhe. Interviews have been done by snowball sampling method. First primary concepts have extracted from interviews then several sub-themes have been found by coding and rating the interviews.
Considering experts’ opinions, 8 main themes were found as teachers’ Impression management tactics from these sub-themes: Ingratiation, Self-promotion, Demonstration, Supplication, Intimidation, Conservative behaviors, Silent protest, Response to challenging situations.