Managerial Challenges Faced by Fresh Directly Appointed Secondary School Heads in Kohat Division, Pakistan

Abstract

Purpose – The current paper was specially designed to investigate the managerial challenges faced by fresh directly appointed secondary school heads of public sector in promoting secondary education.Design/methodology/approach – All the directly selected secondary school heads, secondary school teachers and students of public sector in Kohat Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) constituted population of the study. The study was delimited to only 60 male public secondary schools in Kohat Division. Only 60 directly selected secondary school heads, 120 secondary school teachers and 300 students were selected as sample through simple random sampling technique. The study was descriptive type and a self-developed structured questionnaire was used as research tool. Statistical tools i.e., mean, standard deviation and ANOVA were used for the analysis of data.Findings – The research findings indicate that newly directly selected secondary school heads face a number of managerial challenges in schools. These were; negative attitudes of teachers and support staff; incompetencies of teaching staff; absenteeism of teachers and support staff; parental threats; student’s disruptive behavior; unsatisfactory student’s results; inadequate budget; lack of physical facilities etc.Originality/value – The current paper explores the managerial challenges faced by directly selected secondary school heads. Management is the most important area of any organization but unfortunately it was ignored in public secondary schools by the government and not serious in devising policies and strategies to ensure effective management in secondary schools. The current paper will be proved beneficial in bringing a constructive revolution in the management of public secondary schools. The findings of the study will be useful for the head teachers, Ministry of Education and Policy Makers in devising policies and strategies to find out the appropriate solutions to these challenges in order to ensure effective management in secondary schools.

Keywords Managerial Challenges; Fresh Directly Appointed; Secondary School Heads; Promoting; Secondary Education