Shared Governance andDecision Making of the Principal and Stakeholders in Relation to the Quality Managemen tin Selected Schools in the Division of City Schools in Tabaco City

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The new arena for decision making brings the responsibility for decisions as close as possible to the school defining how school staffs can work collaboratively to make these decisions creating ownership for those responsible for carrying out decision by involving them directly in the decision making process and by trusting their abilities and judgments. These ideas are embedded in many of the terms being used to portray the shift of additional authority, autonomy, and accountability to the school site and to the personnel within. Included are such terms as decentralization, restructuring, site-based management, school-based management, participatory decision making, and school-based autonomy, to name a few. These terms typically are meant to reflect changes in governance structures and the identification of the school as the primary unit of improvement; redistributing decision-making authority is viewed as a major vehicle for stimulating improvements.Having seen the need and recognizing the importance of keeping every school administrator abreast with the demand of time, especially with the realities of what has been described as rapidly changing, highly competitive, information rich, and knowledge intensive society, the school is believed to be one valuable program that generates a veritably rich collection or prescription and remedies to overhaul the general picture of the school and its performance. From this endeavor, blueprint of programs and projects that are geared towards reforming and face-lifting the school were created as it offers mission-driven and client-focused administration. Related to the full implementation of the K to 12 curriculum and the School-based management program, the researcher come up with the study on the collaborative management of the principal and stakeholders in relations to the total quality management in selected schools in the Division of City Schools in Tabaco City.

METHODS

The researcher used the descriptive method since the study focuses at the present condition of the subject whose purpose is to find the new truth. Slovin's formula was used in getting the sample size of population of the study.

RESULTS

Most of the school principals are more knowledgeable and skillful relative to the organizational development in their respective school and community, encouraged the expression of feelings, options, pride, and loyalty through team management in the school and excellently performed organizational instructions in every school.

DISCUSSIONS

Every school should focus attention on designing rewards and recognition systems that strengthen new behaviors and diminish those that are not consistent with school-based shared decision-making.