Unforeseen Effects of the Post-Provisioning Model in Principal’s Administrative Roles in South African Public Schools

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effects of the Post-Provisioning Model in the management of public secondary schools in the King Cetsh wayo district of Kwa Zulu-Natal province in South Africa. Apart from previous studies on PPM, this investigation was conducted quantitatively to present numerical data. Since the study presented numerical data, this study was found grounded in the positivist paradigm. The literature findings reveal that school principals experience poor strategic management, lack of capacity-building workshops, poor filling of vacant posts; failure to manage educator job satisfaction, late admission of learners, and poor redeployment processes of educators. Empirical findings of this study also confirm such effects of PPM which threatens school management roles. The paper concludes by the submissions that there is a need to revise PPM implementation to address challenges and support the management roles of school principals. Moreover, there is a need to incapacitate school managers regarding the management of PPM for its effective implementation.