Planning competencies of heads of department is key factor that contributes to the achievement of school goals and objectives. Heads of department are managers and planners of activities in their various departments. The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of planning competencies of heads of department on student's academic performance in Bumula Sub County Kenya. The study was based on two major theories of educational management that is Formal Model of Education Management and Collegial Model of Education Management. The researcher used a descriptive survey design targeting 50 public secondary schools in Bumula Sub County. Random sampling technique was used to select teachers and Yamane (1967) formula was used to calculate the sample size. A multiple regression analysis was used to quantify the influence of independent variables on the dependent variable. The study findings indicated that the heads of department planning competencies had a positive and significant influence on students' academic performance in Bumula subcounty.

This study examined the relationship between effective educational planning and teaching staff performance among public secondary schools in Zamfara State, Nigeria. A research null hypothesis was established to guide the research work. The study adopted correlational survey design. The population of the study comprised 24 public secondary schools with 670 in-service teachers. From the population of the study, a total number of 12 public secondary schools and 225 in-service teachers were sampled to serve as participants in this study using simple random sampling technique. The sample size was determined using Krejcie and Morgan's (1971) table of determining sample size. Two (2) self-structured questionnaires entitle: "Effective Educational Planning Assessment Questionnaire (EEPAQ) and "Staff Performance Evaluation Questionnaire (SPEQ)" were constructed and utilized as instruments for data collection. The data analysis was computed using Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics. The Pearson Moment Product Correlation Coefficient analysis results (r=0.514, P<0.05) revealed that there is a moderate but significant relationship between effective educational planning and school staff performance among public schools in Gusau Local Government Area, Zamfara State, Nigeria. Based on findings, the study recommends that in order to maintain the high level of the effectiveness of educational planning in Nigeria, the Federal, State, and Local, and Governments as well as other relevant international and local organizations should put hands on deck in employing more professional planners and deploy them to the ministries and agencies for effective planning of education.

Manpower planning or Human Resource planning constitutes very important component and resource base of any organization, be it private or public sector organization. It is against this backdrop that this study identified mismatch of employee with works and lack of requisite training and development as well as proper forecast and projection on manpower needs of organization with environmental realities as problems in order to examine the impact of manpower planning challenges on organizational effectiveness of Akwa Ibom State University. The study adopted a descriptive survey design methodology. Both primary and secondary sources instrumentation was used to collect data for the study. The population of the study was 1,225 comprised of both academic and non-academic staff of Akwa Ibom State University and the sample size of 302 was adopted. The Taro Yamane techniques coupled with regression, correlation analysis was used to test hypotheses with the aid of statistical packages for soci...

This research was conducted to find out how big the influence of planning and coordination partially or simultaneously towards the effectiveness of the work of permanent lecturer of Faculty of Business and Management at Widyatama University of Bandung. Research period is from June to November 2017. The population is 58 lecturers. Technique of multiple linear regression data analysis has been used using SPSS version 18 software. Regression Analysis result there is significant influence by planning variables and coordination either partially or simultaneously. Corresponding analysis based on Pearson correlation coefficient (R) obtained results of 0.831 means the relationship between planning and coordination with the effectiveness of employees is very strong. Through the value of R Square (R2) of 0.894, it can be said that the amount of coefficient of determination (KD) of 86.70% means that the effectiveness of employees 86.70% influenced by the variables of planning and coordination ...

This study aimed at assessing the status of effective educational planning and staff performance in some selected schools in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Two research questions were established to achieve the objectives of the study. A descriptive-survey research design was adopted. The population of the study consisted of all Public Secondary Schools in Gusau Metropolis of Zamfara State, having a total of 24 public secondary schools with 670 teachers. A total number of 12 public secondary schools and 225 in-service teachers were sampled to serve as participants in this study using simple random sampling technique. The sample size was determined using Morgan and Krejcie (1971) table of determining sample size. For the purpose of data collection, two (2) self-structured questionnaires were constructed on a 4-point Likert’s Scale with 29 constructs. The data analysis was made using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics tools. The results revealed that, the status of effective educational planning in public schools in Zamfara State was found at a ‘High Extent’ with statistical value of (M=4.56, SD=3.95). Similarly, the status of staff performance in public schools in Zamfara State was found at a ‘High Extent’ with statistical value of (M=3.69, SD=2.61). Based findings, in order to maintain the high level of the effectiveness of educational planning in Nigeria, the Federal, State, and Local, and Governments as well as other relevant international and local organizations should put hands on deck in employing more professional planners and deploy them to the ministries and agencies for effective planning of education

The implementation of educational planning management at the Al Khoiriyah Educational Institution Serang, Indonesia, has the goal of improving the quality of graduates with indicators of competence competitiveness, both intellectual and skill as well as superior social competence of alumni. The management implemented by the educational institution Al Khoiriyah Serang is based on Islamic values. To achieve the expected results, management of educational planning within the educational organization Al Khoiriyah Serang needs to be carried out and implemented as well as possible. This study uses library research by collecting information and data from reference books from similar previous research results, articles, notes, and various journals related to the problem to be solved. Implementation of educational planning in an organization, especially in the educational institution Al Khoiriyah Serang is not easy. There are many problems and obstacles in the existing work culture, so the w...

The main objective of this study examines the practice of planning at the Ethiopian management institute to pin point the interface between theoretical and actual practice. Since the paper is dealing with assessing the existing planning practice and evaluating its effective implementation in light of the scientific approaches, the researcher primarily opted to apply descriptive research design method. The researcher implements open ended type questionnaire, interview and document analytical data gathering tools. 22 sample respondents were selected, out of the total 80 sample frame, to fill the questionnaire from each department based on the following quota. 10 for management development process, 2 for information and knowledge management process, 5 for property and service management process, 3 for plan, finance and report process, and 2 for human resource development process. Meanwhile, the researcher used judgmental sampling method to select the five process’s owners since they ha...

The paper examined constraints to implementation of educational planning and its implications for the management of educational institutions in Kogi state, Nigeria. Two research questions and two research hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design. 794 staff comprised of principals and other staffers from various state educational agencies served as the population of the study. 318 (40%) staffers were purposefully sampled for the study. Educational Agencies Implementation Predictor (EAIP) served as instrument for data collection. The research questions were analyzed with the aid of mean and standard deviation while the null hypotheses were analyzed with ttest statistic. From the analysis of data collected, mean and standard deviation for RQ1 shows 3.34 and 0.72 for principals while 3.30 and 0.94 for other educational agencies. These show the existence of significant relationship in their opinions. RQ2 shows 3.36 and 0.68 for principals while 3.19 and 1....

Organisation resources allocated for the implementation of strategic plan (SP) has made Public sectors to make good use of the precious information depicted in the SP document. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of organisational resources in implementing SP in Tanzanian public universities with reference to financial, human and physical resources. The study employed descriptive statistics whereby quantitative and qualitative approaches were applied. The data collection used were questionnaire and in depth interviews. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistic while qualitative data were analysed using content analysis. The study finding revealed that lack of organisational resources act as an obstacle towards the implementation of SP no matter how good SP it is. To ensure implementation of SP in public universities specifically at the University of Dodoma (UDOM) it is recommended that more fund should be injected to implement university activ...