More Heads Are Better Than One: School-Based Decision-Making in Varied School Environments

Mokoena, Sello; Machaisa, Rebotile

doi:10.1080/18146627.2016.1257917

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“…This is indicated by the low level of school stakeholders participation at school, for example, the involvement of parents only once at the end of the year (Lingard et al, 2002). The principals decision-making will be better under a good school governance approach in which all school stakeholders contribute relatively in decision-making processes (Mokoena & Machaisa, 2018). In the context of school organizations in Indonesia, this stakeholder participation is accommodated in the school committee.…”

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“…The easy information accessibility is now crucial as in the process of decision-making, it is required active involvement of all stakeholders, namely parents, teachers, students and educational staff. However, practically, the participative decision-making among school principals, teachers, and parents has been challenging to achieve due to the very limited proportion (Mokoena & Machaisa, 2018;Bagarette, 2011). The process of the decision-making is started from identifying a problem, setting a solution approach, testing the idea, and sometimes recognizing a new problem during the testing (Chitpin, 2014).…”

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“…If the principals increasingly reach accountable performance for the educational quality improvement, principals will gain more responsibilities, influence, and power within schools (Shen & Xia, 2012). The principals' roles has been expanded for increasing the accountability and decentralization and dominated in the decisionmaking process (Mokoena & Machaisa, 2018). However, the shared decision-making of the central government to schools improves the problem-solving capabilities of teachers, and decisions become conscious and well-reasoned choices (Wildy et al, 2004).…”

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Article InfoThe research aims to determine the relationship between public primary school principals' paternalistic leadership behaviours and teachers' organizational creativity and organizational dissent perception levels according to primary school teachers' perceptions. A quantitative correlational design was utilized in the research. The research sample consists of 1059 public primary schoolteachers selected by stratified sampling method in Mardin city center and eight districts of Mardin during the 2016-2017 academic year. The data of the research were obtained by using the "Headmasters' Paternalistic Leadership Behaviours Scale," "Organizational Creativity Scale," and "Organizational Dissent Scale. "The data analysis revealed the following findings: There was a positive and significant correlation between the paternalistic leadership behaviours of primary school administrators and teachers' perceptions toward organizational creativity and organizational dissent. Also, paternalistic

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“…At this point, the manager takes decisions on their own without counseling a group or an expert. According to Mokoena and Machaisa (2018), the decision-making process in schools is now carried out with greater participation of all stakeholders. Decision-making is extremely important in educational institutions as well as other organizations.…”

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Exploring School Administrators' Perceptions on Participative Decision-Making Process

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This study aims to investigate school administrators' perceptions on the participatory decision-making process at schools as educational institutions. The method adopted in the research is basic qualitative research design, which is one of the qualitative research designs. Criterion sampling methods and maximum variation sampling methods have been used in the determination of the study group. The study group consists of 30 school administrators from various public preschool institutions, primary schools, elementary schools, and high schools.The study employed semi-structured interview forms in data collection, and the data were analyzed by content analysis method. According to the results of the research, the attitude of managers in the decision-making process differs according to changing conditions. In some cases, teachers are included in the decision-making process, while in others, they are excluded. Decisions are not made in a particular setting. Instead, there is a variety of settings used for this purpose. There are many factors that cause teachers to be included in the decision-making process. The most expressed one of these is that different ideas should be evaluated. Situations where teachers are willing and unwilling to the decision-making process are diverse. According to school administrator's, teachers are reluctant to participate in decisions that will bring extra workload to them. On the contrary, they participate in the process willingly when personal interests are at stake. There are many mistakes made by administrators in the decision-making process. The most common one of these is the tendency of administrators to make decisions alone. There are some expected roles in the process of deciding from school administrators. The most stated code by participants is that managers should support the participatory decision-making process.

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More Heads Are Better Than One: School-Based Decision-Making in Varied School Environments

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