... on time management skills. Originality/value This systematic review identifies the overlooked history of the research and specifies the evidence that supports common claims about PTU, which provides empirically derived guidance for future PTU studies. Principals Management Administration...

... are based on interviews with superintendents, area managers (deputy superintendents), principals and first teachers in Sweden. Sets of systems thinking skills guide the analysis, specifically how various leadership positions are related (their structure and relationships), how leaders understand themselves...

...Meng Tian; Stephan Gerhard Huber Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of educational leadership, administration and management (EdLAM) research by identifying thematic strands that hallmark key publications and synthesise major research findings and limitations...

...Leela Cubillo; Marie Brown The under‐representation of women in positions of senior management within educational institutions continues to be a matter of some concern, particularly as the teaching force is largely dominated, nationally and internationally, by women. Studies on gender...

... indifference of organization scholars to the particular problems of managing and organizing education, there are also indications that our ability to organize schools and universities effectively and efficiently is becoming rapidly more important in an increasingly knowledge‐dependent society...

... observations of aggregate patterns of coupling, and what are the general principles that can help practitioners understand how to develop productive patterns of coupling in organized systems? Management Organizational change Education In the introduction to this special issue of the Journal...

... sense. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Ethics Education Management Leadership Bureaucracy Universities Leadership literature and leadership programs have expanded considerably in recent years; however, the majority of writing in this field concentrates on the characteristics...

... autonomy and flexibility have been initiated drawing on ideas from the new managerialism, new public management, and organization theory. This paper considers the reform efforts at one prominent German university, arguing that significant increases in competitiveness and self‐management can be made even...

...Les Bell Strategic planning, in the form of school improvement planning, has become the dominant approach to school management in English schools. This has evolved from earlier forms of strategic planning and has significant inherent weaknesses that undermine the extent to which school improvement...

... and provisional recommendations to be drawn. It was found that the REAP scheme was valued for three main reasons; it built governance capacity in school communities; delivered “free”, appropriately‐scaled, culturally sensitive and customized support on‐site; and it improved the ability of schools to self‐manage...

... descriptions, to manage their relationship with the principal. These people fail to realize that these activities are investments … If you view yourself in the final analysis as responsible for what you achieve, then you know that you need to establish good working relationships with everyone on whom you...

... Australian University Quality Agency in 2001 and one of its objectives is to measure quality in administration (management). Proposes that academic staff perceptions of administrative quality consist of two first order aspects, operationally defined by a number of second order aspects. The 21 stem‐items...

... increase in empowerment. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Empowerment Effectiveness Management Measurement Environment Empowerment began to appear in the education literature in the late 1980s with the advent of school site‐based decision making. Lightfoot (1986) defined empowerment...

...Marie Brown; Bill Boyle; Trudy Boyle Reviews current thinking about the professional development and management training needs of heads of department in secondary schools and argues for the inadequacy of some of the “front‐end” models of professional development and training currently in use...

... Leadership Education Management Educational administration has enjoyed a healthy period of intellectual ferment in its recent history as an academic field of study, from attempts in the 1950s to develop a science of administration based on the precepts of logical empiricism, to the Greenfield...

.... In order to provide the assistant principal with more meaningful experiences and to involve the assistant principal in areas of instructional leadership, there is a need to develop competencies of delegation among all administrators. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Leadership Management Schools...

... place. However, Gronn points out that “structured observational studies ignore managerial teams, yet managers form twinning, coupling, triadic and other informal constellations” (1994, p. 16). Gronn (1994) describes four key problems with observing managers utilising structured observational studies...

...Alan B. Henkin; Peter J. Cistone; Jay R. Dee Site‐based management depends on collaboration and teamwork among teachers, administrators, and parents. Collaborative decision making in educational systems is frequently characterized by conflict and disagreement, given differing perspectives...

... as entrepreneurial leaders, middle managers, or instructional leaders. Potential explanations for the lack of differences in role are provided. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Schools Leadership Management Stakeholders As predicted by the theoretical frameworks of Crow (1992) and Kerchner (1988...

...Joseph Klein; Marc Wasserstein‐Warnet This study examines the hypothesis that life experience may alter the orientation of locus of control. (The literature ascribes to successful managers an internal locus of control, signifying that they perceive success or failure as a consequence of their own...