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In our era, organizations are trying to stay alive in complex environments. There are many reflections of complexity theory on organizations. The aim of this study is to reveal the effects of complexity on management processes. This study is based on Gregg’s management process approach. With complexity, decision-making models changed, planning is not long-termed anymore, organizations tend to be structured more horizontally, communication should be maintained with all stakeholders, coordination is created by seeing the effect of workers on the total job, effecting is based on leadership, there are different leadership styles, and evaluating can be done with stochastic approach. These reflections on management process can be discussed in terms of school management processes too. © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.

Today’s world has a consistently dynamic structure in constant change and development. We live in a world where we can encounter positive and negative unexpected situations and everything can happen every moment. That such environments in which people and communities live change constantly and quickly shows that people live in a chaos laden environment. The social science lesson which has a very important function in terms of adapting to social life and socializing has an important part in the education of individuals. Thus, the teachers who give lessons regarding the lesson which holds such importance state chaotic situations they encounter in the teaching-instruction process and the evaluation of their responses consists the core of our study. In this study, the aim is the comparative evaluation of the chaotic situations which social science (history, geography, politics, citizenship education) teachers, who serve in Turkey and Germany, encounter in the course. The study using qualitative research methods was carried out by a total of 20 social sciences teachers including 10 in Turkey and 10 in Germany working in 5 different locations (history-geography, politics, citizenship education). As a result of the study, the chaotic situations that teachers who serve in Turkey and Germany, encounter are different in specific ways but basically similar. While teachers in Germany pointed out student-centered problems, the teachers in Turkey tended to non- students factors mostly. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.