ABSTRACT

The present study was carried out to find and compare the Decision-Making Style of Public and Private Secondary School Administrators with reference to their Experience. A sample of 200 administrators was drawn randomly from the Public and Private Secondary Schools of Kashmir. Decision-Making Scale by N. Ganihar was administered for data collection. Mean, S.D and Test of Significance were used to analyse the data. The results revealed that Public administrators prefer Heuristic Decision-Making Style and Private administrators follow Routine and Compromise Decision-Making Styles in dealing with the academic, administrative, entrepreneurial and personal problems. Furthermore, results showed that senior administrators were found to espouse the Heuristic Decision-Making Style than the junior administrators who take on Routine and Compromise Decision-Making Styles.