Participative Management Style: A Tool to Enhance Quality Education

Abstract

Different management styles are in vogue in the management world and are practised by educational managers to enhance individual and collective efficiency of employees. The study surveys the efficacy of participative management style that to what extent it is effective in the modern educational requirements. The study was conducted on one hundred elementary and secondary schools' educational managers of public and private sectors. The data were collected through a questionnaire regarding the type of management educational managers/administrators practise in their organizations. The results reflect that private sector school managers prefer participative management style to others for effective output and achieve various academic and administrative benefits as compared to public sector educational managers who appear to be reluctant to practise participative management style and their practised approach manifests that they like to remain dominant in administrative affairs. But through participative management style millions of public sector students could be given harmonious educational environment which is friendly, accommodating and helpful in their academic career and could bring back the golden days of public sector schools. Hence, the study suggests that public sector school managers should be offered management courses frequently so that by implementing participative management style quality education could be ensured.