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The purpose of this paper is to explore the features that make up the personality of the effective Director of a school unit, qualifications, typical and essentially, they must have and his actions which will contribute to the efficient organization and administration of the school. Then it becomes a comparative review between the tasks and responsibilities of the directors of schools in Greece Cyprus and Finland in order to lighten the commonalities and the differences in the role of managers in respect of the financial management and human resource management of school units. In the second part of the work examines the role of motivation and analyses the factors that motivate people in their working environment while theories are formulated in attempt at understanding the concept and content of incitement. Then the role of incentives is specialized in the school environment where and examined their contribution to the work produced in the workplace while investigated the job satisfaction of teachers as well as the role of the school director in satisfaction of Greek teachers. In the third part of work presenting the results of research carried out with the anonymous questionnaire technique in schools of n. Fthiotidas (high schools- Lyceums). The questionnaire in which they were asked to answer the teachers serving in schools above attempts to record their views on the role of motivation and satisfaction in professional development and improved productivity – the efficiency of the educational project. At the same time attempting to record the opinions of teachers and on the role of Director of the school in the direction of productivity and efficiency.
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To Cite this Article: Brinia, V., & Charalampous, S. (2015). Improving Effectiveness Via Motivation: The Views of Teachers in Secondary Education. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 4(1), 193–199.
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