The Analysis of School-Based Management Implementation and Principals’ Managerial Competencies

Abstract

This study analyzes the problems of School-based Management implementation and principals’ managerial competency. School-Based Management (SBM) is one of the management models to improve school’s performance by delegating management authority and autonomy to the school. This study focused on the problems of implementation effectiveness, viewed from principals’ managerial competency. This study employed Objective-Oriented Evaluation approach, conducted in the elementary schools in Tomohon, and the respondents were principals, teachers and school committees. The data collection was conducted through school visits by doing interviews, observation and collecting school information data. The data was processed and analyzed qualitatively by following several analysis procedures towards credibility, transferability, dependability and conformity of the data. The research findings indicate that the effectiveness of SBM implementation in improving school performance is related to the principal managerial competencies. This study found out that the principal’s managerial competency was lack of several aspects such as leadership, managerial, supervision, the development of human resource management, material resources, social resources and financial resources. It was concluded that the aspects of principal’s managerial competency were not quite effective yet to improve the effectiveness of SBM implementation in schools. It was recommended the need to improve and strengthen principal’s managerial competency in the aspects of leadership, managerial, supervision, and development of human resource management in school.