Bayraktar, OsmanFidan, YahyaSencan, Huner2024-10-122024-10-1220182147-0626https://doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v7i5.1918https://hdl.handle.net/11467/8728Distributed leadership is a management approach that found itself an application field especially in educational institutions. In the research, the effect of self-assertiveness and effective communication behaviors on the distributed leadership perception in an educational institution that is a lifelong learning center is expected to be specified and how this effect changes according to seniority and education factors is tried to be determined. In the study, an analysis is conducted based on the data collected from 302 people where 151 of them are education center managers and 151 are teachers. The Self-Assertiveness Scale developed by Frese et. Al. (1997) is used to measure the self-assertiveness, and for distributed leadership, the Distributed Leadership scale, which is used by Duif, Harrison, and Dartel (2013) in their researches, is used for the distributed leadership. In order to specify the relationships and/or effects between the variables, correlation, regression analysis, t-test, and ANOVA analysis methods are used. In the examination, it is found that the data that belongs to the composite variables that define the average points of all the three scales that is used in the statistical and graphical evaluations, has a normal distribution (p>0,05). The age average of the participants is 41 and the management duration average is 9 years for the participants where 50% of them are teachers and 50% of them are education managers. The age average of the teachers is 37 and the duration of being a teacher is 10 years. In the research, it is determined that there is no effect of self-assertiveness, effective communication and self-assertiveness/effective communication moderator variables on the distributed leadership perception. The main hypothesis of the research, which is that the moderator variable that consists of self-assertiveness, effective communication, and self-assertiveness/effective communication would have an effect on the distributed leadership perception, is not proved statistically. As the seniority level increases in the management group, the point of the distributed leadership decreases and on the other hand, in the teachers' group, as the seniority increases the average of the distributed leadership perception point increases. The average of the distributed leadership perception points of the participants has a slight difference according to the education level.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEducation managersSelf-assertivenessEffective communicationDistributed leadershipArticle75396420N/AWOS:00045464960003510.7596/taksad.v7i5.1918