درجة ممارسة مهارات اتخاذ القرار لدى مديرات المدارس في شمال الرياض

الملخص EN

The study aims to identify the degree of practicing decision-taking skills among school principals in north Riyadh, and identify ways to develop such skills, and the most important obstacles hindering decision-taking, as well as whether there are influencing factors in decision-making attributed to educational qualification, years of experience, and training courses taken.

The analytical descriptive approach was used, and a 48-item questionnaire covering three domains was developed.

The study population consisted of 165 female principals, of them 83 were principals of government schools, and 82 principals of private schools, from all female principles of the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in north Riyadh during the academic year1436/1437AH.

Results of the study indicated that the most important decision-taking skills are the approval of a plan to receive students at the beginning of the school year, taking daily decisions necessary to conduct work, adopting decisions to evaluate the performance of female teachers, facilitating the use of tools and devices necessary for work, and creating a link a collaborative working web for female teachers in the school.

With regard to the most prominent obstacles to decision taking are the lack of understanding of the school principal for some instructions and regulations, the administrative burdens on the school principals, the limited powers granted to the school principal to take decision, and the scarcity of training courses for decision-taking.

The results also showed that the educational qualification variable plays a major role in practicing and promoting decision taking skills and reducing the obstacles to decision-taking, the years of experiences and training courses variables did not affect in the decision-making and obstacles to decision-taking.

Finally, in the light of the results, some recommendations are cited.