برنامج مقترح لتطوير أدوار مديري المدارس الثانوية في ضوء نظرية الإدارة كوظائف ومكونات بولاية الخرطوم
The study aimed at identifying the roles of secondary schools’ principals at Khartoum public schools toward their basic tasks fulfilling, that is (planning, organizing, directing and controlling). It also aimed at knowing how caring those principals take towards work and workers. Another aim of this study was to develop a suggested developmental program, all of which under the theory of administration as functions and components. The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach. The population included 3943 male and female teachers and 175 male and female principals working at Khartoum public schools. The researcher selected a simple random sample of 400 male and female teachers, 43 male and female principals. The researcher used two forms of questionnaires, one for the teachers, the second for the principals as primary data collection tools .As for statistical analysis, the researcher used SPSS program. The study came to a number of findings, the most important of which are: A suggested program for developing roles of secondary schools’ principals in Khartoum state was designed. The Practice degree of the schools’ principals for the four functions (planning, organizing, directing and controlling) came to a great extent. The schools’ principals care towards work and workers was balanced. The existence of many technical and administrative problems affected negatively on the performance of school ’principals. In the light of these findings the study came to several recommendations: paying attention to the application of the program and presenting it to schools’ principals. Attention to be payed to effective educational training that enables school principals to perform their duties as required. Attention has to be payed to the feelings of the school staff and to take into account their different needs and requirements as well as to improve the educational and academic work within the school. Administrative and technical problems have to be identified secondary school principals and work to solve them. (Author's abstract)