Identifying the Main Dimensions and Components of Crisis Management in Order to Offer an Appropriate Mechanism for High Schools in Tehran City
Subject Areas : Educational management
Keywords: Crisis, Crisis management,
Abstract :
The present study has been conducted with an aim of identifying main the dimensions and components of the crisis management in order to offer an appropriate mechanism for high schools in the city of Tehran. With the study of the literature and background of the research, generally two components were identified inside the school and outside the school. Then a questionnaire containing 48items was used and for the final result, a research sample of 30 subjects was selected. The obtained Cronbach’s alpha appeared to be 0.78. The statistical population of this research included all school administrators of high schools in the city of Tehran whose number amounted to 1500 out of which 170 were selected by using Cochran’s formula. In order to analyze the data in the inferential statistics section, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test (KS-test); for studying normality of the answers the single-sample t test, and for reviewing the condition of components of the crisis, Freidman's Test were used. For ranking the components, the following results were obtained: inside schools components in physical dimension, prevention, and intervention were in a satisfactory condition and sub-component of health services and education was in a very low condition. But, in the dimension of outside school, components with simple linear regression method, inside school components were influential over outside school components except for the health services and education where such an influence was absent. In prioritization of the components for the crisis, the physical dimension ranked the highest while outside school component ranked the lowest by using Freidman’s Test.