TY  - JOUR
T1  - Taking a Collaborative Decision: Attitude of the Teacher and the
Encouragement by the Principal
AU - Saad, Norazlinda AU - Sankaran, Surendran 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 30
SP  - 7230
EP  - 7234
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.7230.7234
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7230.7234
KW  - Teachers attitude
KW  -the encourages of principals
KW  -decision-making
KW  -collaborative
KW  -commitments
KW  -school
AB  - To achieve curriculum and co-curriculum excellence in schools collaborative decision-making
processes among the principals and the teachers are needed. Studies have shown that in the context of school’s
administration, the involvement of the teachers in decision making, through collaboration with their principals
is lacking and the main cause of the teacher’s absence in the decision-making process is the attitude of the
teachers themselves. The aim of this research is to identify what influences the attitudes of teachers and in the
same line of thinking the variables that encourage the principals in involving teachers in this collaborative
decision-making processes. This study is research-based involving the use of a questionnaire as the
instrument. The analysis done subsequently showed that the items in the study have a reliability coefficient
of 0.94. The study involved a total of 399 teachers chosen randomly from high achieving SMKs in the state of
Kedah. The study found a significant relationship between the teachers and the encouragements from the
principals. The attitude variable represents a significant influence in the encouragements shown by the
principals. Results show that the readiness shown by the teachers in the decision-making processes is able to
raise the encouragement-levels shown by the principals in involving teachers in collaborative decision-makings
in schools.
ER  -