Value patterns of principal: an indicator of peaceful society for today and tomorrow
Value patterns of principal: an indicator of peaceful society for today and tomorrow

Summary/Abstract: School Principals are head of the organization and have to play diverse roles such as a leader, agent of instruction and discipline, a decision maker, a model for community and an inspirational leader for both students and staff. The various roles which principals play are basically directed by their values which are manifested in their every action. Values influence a specific mode of conduct because values contain the judgmental element which helps the principals in choosing the right, good or any other desirable action in a particular situation. The values manifested by the head are imbibed by the staff and students either voluntarily or involuntarily. Values in fact are determinants for a peaceful school and society as a whole. Objectives of the study were 1.To study the value patterns among principals. 2.To study the value pattern among principals with respect to their gender, experience and type of schools. The sample comprised of 120 principals randomly selected from twelve districts of Delhi. Thus ten principals were selected from each district out of which five girl’s schools and five boys’ schools were taken. The personal value questionnaire of Sherry & Verma1 was administered. Data analysis was done according to the objective of the study. The major findings indicated that value patterns and the magnitude of values were different. Democratic value had highest mean score followed by religions, knowledge, social, family prestige, economic, aesthetic, hedonistic, power and health value. Gender is found to be significant predictor of value pattern. The highest mean score is on democratic value and least on health value. The findings will help in developing appropriate procedures for selecting those principals who hold values essential for development of peaceful society.

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