gender differential paper IJCRB

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JUNE 2011
INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS VOL 3, NO 2
Starratt (1996) states that educational administrators are like teachers of autobiography, in
which he tries to teach his students his own life history. In this autobiography, he conveys the
message that how we live, how we take administrative decision and how we resolve various
issues and problems of our life. In solving the problem the whole process is coloured by our
personal likes and dislikes. Our feelings of others and behaviour towards other people and
the situation is marred by our personalities. 9
Principals are the key players for implementing any conflict resolution strategy in the school.
It depends on the leadership style of the concerned principal and his/her background
knowledge/training in conflict resolution that how he/she deals with a particular conflict
situation. Finally, it is hoped that most of the research reviewed here provide a theoretical
framework for ascertaining different types of conflicts, the sources of conflicts, and
techniques of resolving conflicts. It is concluded that on the basis of theoretical aspects an indepth
investigation will be carried out in order to answer the questions which were posed for
this study.
1.4 Findings and Discussions
In this section major findings and discussions of data gathered from both the primary and
secondary sources have been presented. The presence of conflicts in schools in the province
and its occurrence among the staff members is undisputable.
Table 1: Assigning of duties/work distribution among the staff
Respondents Yes No Total
Male Principals 38 22 60
%age 63% 37% 100%
Female Principals 43 17 60
%age 72% 28% 100%
Table 1 illustrates both male and female principals’ responses to the question that whether
Assigning of duties/work distribution among the staff can be regarded as a cause of conflict
in their respective schools. For the above question 63% male and 72% female principals
respectively responded in affirmative whereas 37% and 28% responded in negative.
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