Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of the stakeholder’s participation in decision making in secondary schools of Toke kutaye woreda west shoa zone. The respondents of this study were school principals, vice principals, CRC supervisor, Teachers, department heads teachers, woreda education experts, student’s parliament committees and PTA chair persons. To conduct this study, descriptive survey, mixed research approach, purposive, availability, and simple random sampling techniques were employed. Primary and secondary sources of data were collected through questionnaire, interview and document analysis and finally analyzed by using SPSS Software. The findings of this study shows that level of stakeholders’ involvement in school decision making found to be low in the school and less attention was given to their contribution for efficient and effective of school performance. Factors that hindered stakeholders’ participation in decision making in general were poor management role of the school leaders, lack of trust and positive relationship, lack of training, and time constraints, lack of commitment and reluctance, unfair assignment of principals, lack of enough encouragement, lack of proper supervision, monitoring and evaluation, lack of school leadership skill of school principals, unwillingness of recognition giving towards motivating and rewarding; lack of transparency, lack of financial incentives. School leaders, student’s parliament committees, teachers, PTA need to update stakeholders’ skills and knowledge through training and regular discussion. Government and the concerned bodies should give strong attention to education leaders in giving short training, motivating, in supervising and specially give strong attention when school principals and from the position were also some of the major recommendations forwarded in order to improve stakeholder’s involvement in decision making
