Decision-Making Style of the Educational Administrators of Higher Secondary Schools with Reference to the type of Institution

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to find out the decision - making style of the administrators of higher secondary schools of Lakhimpur district with reference to the type of institution. A purely descriptive survey design was applied to conducting the study. A sample of 30 educational administrators of both government and private higher secondary schools were selected by applying stratified random sampling from Lakhimpur district. In the study, the investigator used "Decision - Making Style Scale" developed by Noorjehan N. Garnihar (2005) to collect data. Collected data were analyzed with the help of Percentage Analysis, Mean, Standard Deviation, graphical representation and Test of Significance (t-test). The results of the study revealed that heuristic style is the most preferred style of decision making among the higher secondary schools of Lakhimpur district and the study further revealed that a significant difference was there in the decision - making style of the administrators with reference to the type of institution.