An investigation of the relationship between sources of control (internal and external ) and decision making styles (participatory, authoritative ) of school principals

Subject Areas : Educational Science

alireza  moshtagh ¹ (دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد مدیریت آموزشی)
hoseinali  bahramzadeh ² (استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد بجنورد.)

Received: 2015-12-30 Accepted : 2015-12-30 Published : 2010-07-23

Keywords: control source, decision- making style, the internalcontrol source, enternal control source, imperios style, cooperative style,

Abstract :

The aim of this research is to study the relationship between the control source (internal- enternal ) of the high school schoolmasters of Bojnourd with their decision- making styles (imperious- cooperatirc ) in the educational year of 1388-89. The main hypothesis of the study is that : There is are lationship between the control source ( internal- enternal ) of the high school school masters of Bojnord with their decision- making styles (imperionss- cooperatire ). For this reason, the source control of the principals as the independent variableand the decision- making styles as the dependent variable have been studied.Sexality, management enperience, the degree of the education and the age of the principals are the modifying variables and the educational time of the schoolmasters are the control variable. This reseach from the view point of aim was accounted for the applied researches. The type of descriptional research is of the unity type. The statistical  society includes all of the schoolmasters of Bojnourd in the educational year of 1388-89. The sample volume was selected 56 people according to Jersey Table and Morgan that was with the simple accidental sampling. In order to gather the information from the two standard questionnaire, Rotter source control have 29 two- choice question that the factors suchas the free will , autonomy , The personal power of  the humans , ability and effort , controlling , to value for the skills and their abilities against disability and the human desperation , self- strange, feeling of the helplessness, difficulty of the duty, chance and uncontrollable have been studied. And the questionnaire of Freed- Luthanz management style which have 35 questions that can be numerated according to the Liquert scale. The accuracy and durability of the two questionnaires had been verified by the academic advisors and consultant and the other specialists. For the analyzing of the information  from SPSS  software, had been used from the descriptional statistics method and presumptive  ( Kheydu test ) and Pearson unity. The findings of the research shows that there is ameaningful relationship between the souree control (internal- enternal) of the high-school schoolmasters of Bojnord with their decision- making styles ( imperious- cooperative) in the educational year 1388-89 in the confidencelevel of 95 percent. Also ,of the sub- hypotheses , the second reseach hypothesis that shows the relationship between the internal control source of the principals and their decision-making styles is cooperative and the third research hypothesis that shows the relationship between the euternal control source of the principals with their decision- making style is imperions had been verified. Also from theresearch sub- results wecan torefer to the relationship between the management style and the management record that by increasing of the management record,the desine to use the cooperative management style increased and so there is arelationship between the control souree and the degree of education and with risingof the education's degree ( master's degree ), the control source, internalized.