Evaluating Practices Related to Delegation of Authority and the Relationship between Delegation and Decision-Making among Secondary Schools Principals in Jeddah

Abstract

The research aimed at discovering the relationship between the delegation of authority and decision-making among the Secondary Schools Principals in Jeddah from the point of view of female assistant principals, through identifying the degree of delegation of authority and identifying the degree of decision-making. The researcher used the descriptive survey method. The researcher used the questionnaire as a study tool, . The questionnaire was distributed to a sample of (112) female assistant principals, or approximately 80% of the study community, which was randomly chosen.

The study used the SPSS statistical analysis program to analyze the study data, and the study reached some results, the most notable of which was that:

The degree of delegation of authority among school principals has obtained a total average (3.14 out of 5) j with a degree (medium), and at the sub-aspects level; the administrative aspects got an average of (3.20) followed by the delegation in the educational aspects with an average of (3.02) and finally the technical with an average of (3.20) While the degree of decision-making obtained an overall average (2.94 out of 5) and at the level of fields, the field of planning obtained an average (3.0) and the field of implementation got an average of (3.24) and both with a degree (average) while the field of evaluation got an average (2.58), i.e. (Weak). There is a strong positive correlation between the degree of delegation of authority and the degree of decision-making among principals of secondary schools in schools south of Jeddah, which amounted to (0.673). And that there is a positive and positive correlation between the degree of delegation of authority and the degree of decision-making among the principals of public secondary schools, and this is supported by the value of the correlation coefficient, where it reached (0.673). Based on the results of the research, the researcher recommended the most important of them: The study concluded some recommendations, the most important of which were:

- Training courses shall be held for high school female principals in Jeddah to train them on the delegation, its foundations, its components, and its importance.

- Providing female principals with financial and moral incentives to motivate them to make delegation of their authorities, which creates a second tire in the chain of command in the school.