The impact of leadership role of educational managers on value system evolution with emphasis on narrative monograph

Leadership is known as the essence of management. The mission of schools as educational institutions is to create a value system for students. According to Grave's theory, each student has his/her own personal value system. In the light of Grave's theory, the main question of this research focuses on how leadership role of educational managers affects student's value system. In this case study, qualitative approach has been selected. Data was collected through the semi scheduled interview with manager and deputy managers of one of the high schools in the city of Mashhad. Observation of the school and random observation of interaction between manager and deputy managers was utilized for collecting complementary data. In order to increase the validity of data collection, various methods including triangulation, participant's revision, recoding by reviewer, and quasi-statistical analysis were used. The result showed that manager’s behavior helps categorize the value system of students under the second, third, and the forth level of Grave's taxonomy. That is, the student's could not get into the value system which is devoted to spirituality, integrity, socio-centrism and logical thinking/wisdom.