Examining the Relation betweenPrincipals' Decision-Making Styles and Productivityinhigh schools of LamerdCity
1AbolfazlAbbasi, 2 DoctorSayedAhmad Hashemi, 3Mohammad Gholami and 4SeddiqehAbedi
1M.A Student Educational administration, shiraz university, and EmployeeEducation, Larestan. Iran
2PhD, Islamic Azad University, Lamerd Branch, , Iran
3Faculty member of Islamic Azad University BndarLenge – Iran
4Master studentof Industrial Management, Islamic Azad UniversityShiraz
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This study is to examinethe relation betweenprincipals' decision-making styles and productivity in high schools of Lamerd city in 2012-2013 so 98 principals and assistant superintendents of the high schools were assessed. The measurement device was Stephen Robins decision styles including four types of analytic, conceptual, behavioural and directive decisions and related questionnaire included 24 questions invented by Robins (2005) and the principals divided in four stratums and finally the reliability was defined 0.83 by Cronbach alpha. Also the Smith's et al. (1988) productivity questionnaire was used defined the validity 0.89 after translation. The data were analyzed by multiple regression method to define the effect of each style on the productivity. The findings indicated there is significant and positive relation between
the decision styles and productivity; also the conceptualdecision style has more effect on the schools' productivity than other styles and the behavioural, analytic and directive ones have less effect on the principals, respectively.
Keywords: Decision – making style, productivity, high schools of Lamerd city
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