Author's Name:	Philip Gazimbe and Regis Fanuel Gutuza
Subject Area:	Social Science and Humanities
Subject	Education
Section	Research Paper

Organisational politics, decision-making, schools, implementing, participatory.

The paper presents challenges posed by organizational politics in decision-making in schools. Participatory decision-making is key to the development of schools. The paper establishes that the presence of coalitions that seek to protect their own interests and positions of power, unequal distribution of power, organisational politics and defensive behaviors, behaviors for avoiding action, over conformity, buck puss, misrepresenting information all contain fully fledged participatory decision-making. There is need for heads to be fully aware of these phenomena so as to address them first before implementing participatory participation in their schools.