Impact of Management Style by the Principals on the School Environment: A Survey Study

Abstract

Management in education cannot be exaggerated as without good management of available resources, the objective of a standard education cannot be achieved. Effective management is very important to accomplish the national educational objectives. The purpose of this research work was to investigate the effects of the democratic managerial style of principals regarding the school environment. Beside the multiple parameters of measuring the effects of the democratic managerial style on the school environment, the study focused only the conducive environment in democratic management style for teachers. Population of the study constituted all secondary school teachers (male and female) of district level. In this regard, only one district i.e., district Narowal was taken to choose the respondents of the study. The secondary school teachers i.e., total 200(100 male and 100 female) were selected as sample of the study, using stratified sampling technique from boys and girls schools respectively. A self-made questionnaire, consisting ten items, was utilized as an exploration instrument for the accumulation of the data from the secondary school teachers. Reliability was also checked before applying the questionnaire to the teachers. SPSS (software package for statistical analysis) was used to interpret the results collected after the circulation of questionnaires. After gathering of the information, it was arranged and investigated by utilizing Chi Square and checked noteworthiness of the announcement at alpha worth0.05 level of significance. It was concluded that democratic managerial style of head teachers increases the motivational level of teachers that has positive effect on the teaching learning process.