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The present dissertation’s purpose is to research the teachers’ board’s contribution to the management of the school unit and the administrative functions and to research if the present administration of the school unit allows and even offers participation opportunities in each case. For the success of the above issues, a quantitative survey was accomplished through the secondary school’s teachers in the country of Kozani (Junior High Schools, High Schools and Technical High Schools). The statistic sample consists of 153 teachers. More specifically, what was investigated was the teacher’s participation level in specific parts of the management and also the extent to which they are willing to consider their participation in the future. Moreover, another issue that was included in the research is the teacher’s intention to occupy an administrative position in the future and the association between this intention and the willingness to participate in the administrative functions of the school unit. The methodological tool that was used for the collection of data is the questionnaire, which consisted of 28 close –ended questions – sentences. The statistic processing of data that were collected and the analysis of the results were accomplished with the use of the Statistical Package of the Social Sciences SPSS 22. The results, to which the research concluded, showed that the teachers board participates in the administrative organization of their duties and at a lower level in the planning. According to the teachers’ opinions it was found that there is a strong co-operation among the members of the Teachers’ Board’s they develop climate full of trust and respect during the meetings. In addition, what the research concluded to, is that there is support and guidance from the director to the members of Teachers Association but this contrasts the other result which is about the fact that the director of the school does not provide power delegation. Therefore, always according to the analysis of the research’s answers democratic decision - making processes are implemented, but at the same time the applied leadership style is largely far from the authoritative style, which many teachers desire. A grate correlation was observed between the actual and the desirable participation of the Teachers’ Association’s members with the willing to prospective position of responsibility and meanwhile with the postgraduate studies