Status of Management Development Practices and Challenges in Secondary schools in Akaki Kality Sub-city Addis Ababa
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2022-02
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Abstract
The purpose of secondary schools of study was to examine the management development
practice and its challenges in Akaki Kality Sub -city and secondary school. To this end three
basic questions were posted to investigate the current management development practice and
changes. To achieve this purpose descriptive survey designed used in conducting the survey,
qualitative and quantitative techniques were employed to collect and analyze data A total of 104
sample respondents were taken through available sampling technique. The sample includes
principals, vice principals, department heads, and club leaders Primary data were collected
through questionaries’ and interview question. For quantitative part item were pilot-tested and
modified to ensure consistency and reliability data were analyzed through descriptive statistical
procedures such as frequency and percentages were used to describe the number of respondents
and amount of perception respectively to describe the level of management development practice
and challenges standard deviation were used to determine the validity of values. The qualitative
were analyzed thematically and the findings were narrated,the data analyze led to the following
major findings are, is generally accepted that the attitude of mangers, scarcity resources, and
finical constraints are challenges to the practice of management development in government
secondary schools in Akaki Kality sub-city. The challenges observed in the targeted secondary
schools are so, critical that they can have negative influence on the effectiveness of the
management development practice. The negative influence could have repercussion on the
learning outcomes of students and the quality of education., priorities of training needs has an
impact on the performance of the school management, this means that all school staff members,
such as school committee, department heads and school club leaders are encouraged to
discharge their responsibility in more effective way, in other words, the priorities would
enhance, the commitment and capacity of all staff members to perform their respective tasks, the
finding confirmed that both on-the-job and off-the-job training are delivered to principals, vice
principals, department heads, and club leaders. The purpose of both types of training is to
improve the performance capacity of management In this study the targeted schools are founded
required to finical resource constraints. It has been recommended that the finical resource are
important factors for school performance to solve the problems of finical problems decries the
exercise of sending money ,encourage the community to participate and support the schools,
create a new idea how to get resources, from different donors and civic society, it should be
encourage community involvement in school connect with business civic organization, charity
non profitable foundation and other group and international organization. Some of possible
finical resources are student’s annual fees