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This study sought to examine the impact of teachers‟ involvement in decision making
in public secondary schools in Kahama town council. It examined the extent to which
teachers participate in decision making and the approaches applied by the heads of
schools in involving teachers in decision making. The study determined the impact of
teachers‟ involvement in decision making in schools. The study used a research mixed
approach and sequential explanatory design. A total number of 93 respondents were
involved. They included teachers, academic coordinators and heads of secondary
schools. The informative data were collected by using questionnaires, interviews and
document reviews. Quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics with
the assistance of SPSS version 22 while qualitative data employed thematic and content
analysis. The study established that, in most public secondary schools heads of schools
involve teachers in decision making processes to a reasonable extent. It was also
revealed that, the heads of schools involve teachers in different areas of school daily
activities, notably students‟ discipline, framing the timetable, handling of internal
examinations and allocation of duties to teachers. Besides, it was confirmed that in
most schools, the democratic approach was used. It was unveiled too that, the
involvement of teachers in decision making has positive implications as opposed to the
negative implications that one would expect. The study recommends that, the
government should set up policies that require heads of schools to involve teachers in
decision making. Furthermore, the study recommends that, the government should
introduce a system of ensuring regular monitoring on practice employed by heads of
schools in decision making in order to determine the extent to which teachers are
involved in decision making. |
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