Managerial Style Of Primary School Head Teachers Case Study

Agarwal (1983) in his study entitled, “stress proneness adjustment as predictor of administrative effectiveness of principals”, made the study with the sample comprising 423 principles belonging to the intermediate colleges. The dependent variable was the administrative effectiveness and it was measured with the help of the administrative effectiveness scale. 0.86 was the reliability coefficient in the study. For measuring the principals’ stress proneness, the administrative stress proneness scale was developed. The conclusions were drawn with the help of Pearson product moment corelation. The findings indicate the following: (1) there was no difficult relation between the administrative effectiveness of the principals and their stress proneness,
A sample 257 head- teachers belonging to the primary school were selected for the study. The questionnaire was served to the head teachers and they were requested to indicate to what extent they agree or disagree with this statement is given in the questionnaire. The modes of the responses were presented in a Likert form. It was revealed in the study that the preference of the headteachers was for the Democratic managerial style of functioning as described by the Theory
For the sake of study, 20 senior secondary school principals of Western district of Delhi and five teachers from each of the selected schools were selected through a stratified random sampling method. The outcome of the study is as follows: (1) It was observed that in their styles of behavioural management, the school principals resorted to either pass our relationship or a balance of both. (2) neither age nor experience in flames the leadership behaviour of the principles. (3) it was observed that the principals behaved in accordance with the demands of the situation. (4) the likings and disliking is of the school principals regarding certain things influence their value patterns. In the organisational context, they held belief specific to the importance they place. (5) the leadership behaviour of the principles and the value patterns that the possessed differed with the nature of institution. (6) all the three dimensions of value patterns namely personal, functional and relationship were displayed by the principals of government schools for boys and girls. Both, the principles of the boys schools and the principles of the girls schools showed similar kind of behaviour however the principals of the girls schools showed excelling performance in carrying out tasks