DECISION MAKING STYLES OF PRINCIPALS ACROSS FACULTIES: A STUDY

Principals of the higher education institutions make decisions about all educational, financial and administrative processes of the institutions. As Decision - making ability of the principal is a pivotal factor in his function and it pervade the entire institutional functioning, there is pressing need to explore the decision – making styles of the principals across the faculties. The aim is to compare decision - making styles of the principals on the basis of faculties. Normative survey method is used and 245 principals from six faculties constitute sample. The data collected using Decision - Making Style Scale by Noorjehan N.Ganihar. The findings show significant faculty wise difference in Routine Decision - Making Style and Heuristic Decision - Making Style whereas for Compromise Decision - Making Style faculty wise difference is not significant.