57 International Journal of Education and Psychological Research (IJEPR) Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2016 I. INTRODUCTION Decision making means a thought process of selecting a reasonable choice from the available options. When someone trying to make a good decision, he/she must judge the positives and negatives of each option, and consider all the options. For effective decision making, a person must be able to judge the outcome of each option as well, and based on all these items, decide which option is the best for that particular given situation. It can be defined as the process of making choices among possible choices. It is a daily activity for any human being. There is no exception about that. When it comes to in some organizations, decision making is a habit and a process as well. Effective and successful decisions make profit to the organizations and unsuccessful ones make losses. Therefore, corporate decision making process is the most critical process in any organization. When we are talking about the school management decision making skill is very essential for any principal. He works as the backbone of any school. His decisions are for the goodness of school. In the decision making process, we choose one course of action from a few possible alternatives. In the process of decision making, we may use many tools, techniques and perceptions. In addition, we may make our own private decisions or may prefer a collective decision. Normally, decision making is tough. Corporate decisions may create many dissatisfaction or conflict with another party. For making any decision, everyone have to follow some steps. These may be given as: Step 1: Identification of the purpose of the decision In this step, the problem is thoroughly analyzed. Before identifying the purpose of the decision a couple of questions should be asked. Step 2: Information gathering Information related to the given problem should be gathered. As we know that there can be dozens of factors involved and affected by the problem. Step 3: Principals for judging the alternatives In this step, the entire possible alternative should be judge. As an example, profit is one of the main concerns in every decision making process. Companies usually do not make decisions that reduce profits, unless it is an exceptional case. Likewise, baseline principals should be identified related to the problem in hand. Step 4: Brainstorm and analyse the different choices For this step, brainstorming to make a list of all the ideas is the best option. Before the idea generation step, it is essential to understand the causes of the problem. Step 5: Evaluation of alternatives Use your judgement principals and decision-making criteria to evaluate each alternative. In this step, experience and effective judgement play an important role. You need to compare each and every alternative in positives and negatives way. Step 6: Select the best alternative Once you go through from Step 1 to Step 5, this step is easy. In addition, the selection of the best alternative is a clued-up decision since you have already followed a methodology to obtain and select the best alternative. Step 7: Execute the decision Convert your decision into a plan or a sequence of activities. Execute your plan by yourself or with the help of other. Study the Decision Making Skills of Govt. & Private Secondary School Principals: An Evaluation [1] Ms. Menka [1] Research Scholar, B.P.S. Institute of Teacher Training & Research, B.P.S. Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Khanpur Kalan (Sonepat) Email: Menka.edu@gmail.com Abstract: Decision making is selecting appropriate option from different options. For any human being decision making is very necessary as this is the main criteria for judging the mental ability of any one. Principal is the backbone of any school administration. Most of the decisions are given by principal for the development of school. In the given study investigator compare the decision making skills of govt. and private secondary schools as well as male and female secondary schools principals. Sample of 80 principals of different secondary school was taken by purposive sampling. For the assessment of decision making in secondary school principals Decision Making Style Scale by Dr. Noorjehan N.Ganihar(2005) was used. Statical techniques like mean, S. D. and T-test was used. This study despite that govt. school principals decision making are more significant then private school principals. On the other hand there is no significant difference between decision making skills on the bases of gender. The reason behind the first result may be Govt. schools principals are more independent then private school principals because former have to implement the policy on the other hand later have to follow the instruction of the management. Keywords: Decision making, govt. school principal and private school principal.