Participative decision-making is known as a significant element for effective educational supervision. Not only does it facilitate the execution of decisions but also heads towards the teacher’s respect and empowerment.Principals act as a pivotal person in maintaining and establishing school participative decision-making. The purpose of the research was to study the perception of teachers towards principals’ participative decisionmaking practices in government and private elementary schools of Lucknow, India. To collect the essential data for the study, the descriptive survey method was applied

Decision-Making, Perception, Leadership, Elementary schools, Teacher, Principal