The Availability Degree of the Application Requirements of the Crisis Management Skills among school principalsin Muscat Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the availability degree of the application requirements of the crisis management skills among school principals in Muscat Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman. The descriptive approach has been used to have this study applied via a survey of 45 items distributed to 5 domains and applied to a sample of 62 male and female principals drawn randomly from the population. The study has reached a number of results the most important of which is that the arithmetic mean related to the availability degree of the application requirements of the crisis management skills have demonstrated large estimates. The domain of dealing with crises when they occur came first followed by the domain of benefiting from crises after they occur and lastly the domain of crisis prevention skills. The results have also demonstrated the absence of differences of statistical significance in all domains regarding the two sex and education stage variables. The study has recommended a number of mechanisms in order to develop the prinipals crisis management skills, including the increase in the number of workshops and training programs that are specialized in crisis management with emphasis on real examples and practical applications, as well as the execution of training programs on how to prevent crises.