Principles of Delegation as Perceived by the Secondary School Administrator

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to determine 1) The major components of the Principles of delegation at perceive by the secondary school administrator , 2) The differences of the Principles of delegation at perceive by the secondary school administrator when classify by the size of school and 3) The result of the confirmation of the principles of delegation as perceived by the secondary school administrator. The instruments employed for data collection were an unstructured interview, an opinionnaire and a checklist for verify of the components the sample of this study were 336 secondary school administrators under the Office of the Basic Education Commission. The statistic for analyzing the data were frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, confirmatory factor analysis, F-test and content analysis. The findings of this study were as follows: 1). There were 7 major components of the principles of delegation as perceived by the secondary school administrator (1) Principle of Functional Definition, (2) Principle of Result Expected, (3)Principle of Parity of Authority and Responsibility, (4) Principle of Unity of Command, (5) Principle of Absoluteness of responsibility, (6) The Scalar Principle and (7) Principle of Exception. 2). The differences of the principles of delegation as perceived by the secondary school administrator found that two components were different at .05 such as Principle of Unity of Command and Principle of Exception. And 3). The result of the confirmation of the model of the principles of delegation were accurate, appropriate possible, and utility.