DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2026.v14i02.007

Pages: 75-86

Both leadership and management of schools involve greater-depth decision-making. The decisions made must be deemed sensible and stand the justifications for why they are made. This study explored decision-making in ICT integration for school purposes in an international high school. Schools operate with technology in various aspects but contexts vary. This context also separates certain schools from those that acquire ICT for the sake of it. Thirteen participants represented by teachers, students, an ICT coordinator, departmental heads and principals took part in the study. By grounding this study on the technology, organisation environment theory, specific and context-based reasons for ICT integration enactment and the decisions made were clarified. Subsequently, the findings showed that ICT integration was enacted to cater for curriculum demands and its compounding impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of general school purposes. Decision-making addressed issues of policy, vision, resourcing, training and decentralisation of ICT decisions. A four-factor model was developed to emphasise that decision-making was based on the context of the school, informed by policy and occurred through centralising and decentralising decision-making. This study recommends further study into processes that are involved in decision-making.