The degree of practicing the Management By Wandering Around (MBWA) by school principals at Bani Kenana Directorate of Education from their perspectives

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the degree of practicing the Management By Wandering Around (MBWA) by the school principals at Bani Kenana Directorate of Education from their perspectives and identify the impact of the independent variables of gender and years of experience. The study sample consisted of (89) male and female principals. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the descriptive, deductive analysis in addition to the questionnaire that consisted of (27) items, whose validity and reliability were confirmed. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the (SPSS) such as the frequencies, percentages, arithmetic means, standard deviations, internal consistency coefficient of Cronbach alpha, (MANOVA) test and (ANOVA) test. The study results showed that the arithmetic mean of the degree of practicing the MBWA by the school principals as a whole was (3.77) by a high degree where the field of development and creativity was ranked first with an arithmetic mean of (4.78) by a high degree and the field of the human relations was ranked last with an arithmetic mean of (3.51) by a moderate degree. Furthermore, the results showed no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.05) in the degree of practicing the MBWA by the school principals in Bani Kenana Directorate of Education from their perspectives as a whole according to the variable of gender, and in favor of the (females) in addition to statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.05) in the degree of practicing the MBWA by the school principals in Bani Kenana Directorate of Education from their perspectives as a whole according to the variable of years of experience in favor of those with an experience of (more than 10 years).