Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between supervisory styles of principals/head and organizational climate of Primary and secondary schools in Patna. Two research objectives guided the study while a null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance in order to make decisions on the issues investigated. The data for the study were collected with the use of two questionnaires called Supervisory Styles of Principle/Head (SSHP) and School Organizational Climate (SOC). These were pilot tested using schools composed of 7 Head teachers and 93 students from the same area of that study, bringing the total subjects to 105. These 105 subjects did not form part of the main study. The reliability coefficient of the instruments was ascertained through the split-half method which gave reliability coefficient of 0.78. The sample of the study was 560 subjects composed of principals, teachers and students, selected by stratified random sampling procedure. The analysis of data collected was done using mean, standard deviation and Pearson Product-Moment). The results of the study indicated low relationship ¡ Correlation Coefficient between the organizational climate of schools and supervisory roles of principals/Head of secondary schools in Patna.