Dr. Sehrish Khalid, Dr. Shahla Tufail, Dr. Sumaira Munawar , Dr. Samra Saeed, Dr. Naheed Akhtar
Abstract
The aim of this study was to learn how secondary school head teachers made decisions. Furthermore, the study was designed to compare the decision-making practices of Public and private school head teachers and also male and female head teachers. The researcher used quantitative design for the study. The population of the study consisted of all head teachers of secondary schools in Lahore. The random sampling technique was used. The researcher developed decision-making practices (DMP) questionnaire to collect the data for the study. The researcher personally visited the schools, and overall 356 of total 384 questionnaires were received back. In this way, the return rate of questionnaire becomes 92.7% of the total sample which was quite encouraging. So, sample size got reduced from 384 to 356. Reseaechers computed the mean and standard deviation. The significance of the difference between male, female, and public HTs' perceptions of their decision-making methods was examined using an independent sample t test. Findings of the study illustrate that public and private HTs’ mean responses about decision-making practices had found significant difference while male and female HTs’ mean responses had found no significant difference.
Keywords:
:Decision-making, decision-making process, decision-making practices, public and private schools HTs’
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