Major Managerial Problems of General Secondary School Principals in SNNPRS
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2008-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study was conducted to explore tile major manager anal problems encounteredby genial secondary school principals in SNNPRS and to for unled possibleecommendations. To this effect, descriptors research method was employed.Questionnaires were used as data gatherings tool. The data were collected from two zones and one special woreda of the region using purposive samplingtechnique they had more untrained principals than others. In the samplestudy areas, eight general secondary schools were selected by 10ttenJ samplingtechnique. A total of 151 teac1lCrs, 13 principals and 41 woreda educationofficers were included as subjects of the study using by availability sampling.The data tabulated were analyzed with the help of percentage, mean weightedmean, chi-square test and t-test. The findings of the study repealed out thatGSSPs in the study areas were Total qualified. Besides, they did not '/Quesufficient training to run the schools. Further more, they were assigned by WEODue to these, untrained principals faced many problems. For instance,management functions ,planning staffing, and reporting) were rarely practiced.More outer, they lacked appropriate and relevant skills to carry out their day today activities. Specifically, teachers were not interested by management styles of principals; parents, NGOs and employers were not motivated to participate in the school activities; and the attention given by those principals to profession a ldevelopment was minimal. Thus, various interventions are important to save the endangered school management. Accordingly, the appointment of school principals should be on the basis of profession and principals should be trained and qualified before they become principals.
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