Integrity Journal of Education and Training

The study sought to examine school committee system and effective management at the senior high school. The study targeted management and teachers of senior high schools in the Techiman Municipality in the Bono Region, Ghana. The study was anchored on the explanatory research design. The study sample size comprised both staff and management. A questionnaire was used to elicit the data from the respondents. Validity and reliability of the research instrument were tested using expert judgment and Spearman’s Brown Prophecy formula, respectively. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools. From the results, employees highly perceived that the committee systems promote participatory decision-making and help in maintaining discipline and effective supervision in schools. It was further revealed that the committee system enhances managerial accountability and helps in skills and talent development. Increased workload, lack of finance, lack of motivation, inadequate staffing, delay in decision-making, non-implementation of committee recommendations and ineffective relationship among staff negatively affected the effectiveness of the school committee system. There was statistically positive and significant relationship between effective school management and managerial accountability, disciplinary roles of committees, committees’ roles in developing skills and talents and supervisory roles of committees. It was recommended, among other things, that management of the respective senior high schools come up with a structured format that will take care of reward systems by examining promotion, fringe benefits, salaries and recognition, and insist the school authorities serve the needs and interests of students, staff and other stakeholders.