PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING AMONG TEACHERS IN THE KINTA DISTRICT OF PERAK

Tai , Mei Kin (2007) PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING AMONG TEACHERS IN THE KINTA DISTRICT OF PERAK. Jurnal Pengurusan dan Kepimpinan Pendidikan, 17 (02). pp. 121-133. ISSN 1511-4147

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the level of teachers' actual and desired involvement in decision making. It also sought to find out if there was a discrepancy between teachers' actual and desired involvement in decision making. This research was conducted using a survey method. The sample composed of 192 teachers who were selected randomly from 12 secondary schools in the Kinta district of Perak using a simple random sampling method. All subjects completed the Decision Involvement Analysis Questionnaire with 20 decision issues related to both the instructional and the managerial domains. All the 192 questionnaires distributed were returned, representing a return rate of 100%. The results of the study revealed that the teachers did not report a high level of actual involvement in decision making. The teachers' level of desired involvement was found to be higher than their level of actual involvement both in the instructional as well as in the managerial domain. How ever, most of the teachers experienced a moderately high level of actual PDM in the instructional domain compared with the managerial domain. Similarly, teachers experienced decision deprivation in the managerial domain as well as the instructional domain. Compared with the instructional domain, teachers experienced a higher level of decision deprivation in the managerial domain.

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