Delegation of Authority of UNRWA Basic Schools Principals in Palestinian's Northern Governorates from the Teacher's Point of View

This study aimed at identifying the level of delegation of authority for UNRWA basic schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern Governorates from the teachers’ point of view.The study aims at answering the following questions: What is the level of delegation of authority for UNRW basic schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern Governorates from the teachers’ point of view? Are there statistically significant differences at a=0.05 among domains of UNRWA basic schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern Governorates from the teachers’ point of view? Do variables of sex, academic, qualification years of experience, number of school sections and governorate have an impact on determining the level of delegation of authority form UNRWA teachers point of level? To answer the aforementioned questions, the researcher chose a stratified random sample from UNRWA Basic Schools in Palestine’s northern Governorates. The subjects of study totaled (187) male and female teachers For data collection, the researcher used Dowicat (2000) questionnaire. A committee of referees evaluated the scale. Using cronbach alpha checked the reliability of the questionnaire. To make the statistical processing, the researcher used arithmetic means (average, percentages and T-test, Scedac, test for dimensional contrasts and one way analysis of variance). Findings: The delegation of authority level was revealed in the areas of technical, educational and social duties and the total degree was averaged. But the level of Delegation of authority in the social duties was high. There were there statistically significant differences at a=0.05 among domains of UNRWA schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern Governorates. 3- There were a statistically significant difference at a=0.05 in delegation of authority for UNRWA schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern governorate which may be attributed to sex variable in, favor of male teachers from the teachers point of view. There were no a statistically significant difference at a=0.05 in delegation of authority for UNRWA schools principals in Palestine’s northern governorate from the teachers point of view, which may be attributed to number of school sections duties in technical, educational and social domains. In contrast, there were statistically significant differences in the domain of administrative duties and total degree of delegation in favor of school with more than Section. There were no statistically significant differences at a=0.05 in delegation of authority for UNRWA Basic schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern governorate from the teachers point of view which may be attributed to teachers experience variable. There were no statistically significant differences in delegation of authority for UNRWA Basic schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern Governorates from the teacher’s point of view that may be attributed to teacher’s qualification variable. There were no statistically significant differences in delegation of authority for UNRWA Basic schools’ principals in Palestine’s northern Governorates from the teachers point of view which may be attributed to conversation in the social domain.In contrast, there were statistically signification differences in educational, administrative and technical domains and total degree of delegation. Recommendations: In the light of the study findings, the researcher has COM up with a set of recommendations: - Setting up training programmer and holding meeting for UNRWAS primary schools principals to implement delegation of authority concept. Conducting empirical studies on the subject of this study throughout Palestine.