A Study on Decision Making of Head Teachers at School Level

Abstract

Educational leaders play key role to execute policies and to plan in time decisions for day to day issues. This study is an investigation about the present practices of school-heads about their decision making. Another core objective of the study was to compare the decision styles of school-heads with regard to their gender and locality. This study was descriptive in nature and quantitative research approach was used to conduct it Questionnaire developed by the researcher on five point Likert Scale was used as tool to collect data from the twenty school-heads selected as sampled participants by applying simple random sampling technique from the population of the study. Finally, findings of the study showed that behavioural decision style was used by the majority of heads with 53% while directive was on second with 47%.