... 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. In addition to the original five articles...

... 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...

... 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 of leadership incumbents...

... 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...

... of education from economics or, in the case of writing about mechanistic and organic models of management, from the study of industrial organizations. And that, one suspects, is part of their appeal to scholars interested in improving public administration. These are models firmly grounded in the problems...

... 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. During...

...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...

... to their job 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...

... 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. 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 in the educational context...

...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...

... invention and explaining it as a natural system (Greenfield, 1975). © MCB UP Limited 2001 Organizational learning Leadership Education Management Educational administration has enjoyed a healthy period of intellectual ferment in its recent history as an academic field of study, from...

.... 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. Leadership Management Schools An important element...

... structured observational studies. However, argues that the application of this research method in an unstructured form is where greater insights and more current knowledge of administrative practice can be gained. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Management Management development Organizational change...

...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...

...Neil Dempster This paper examines the impact and effects of site‐based management on schools using a framework developed by Canadian researchers, Sackney and Dibski. It draws on research literature from the UK, New Zealand and Australia and includes results from three studies in which the author...

... as entrepreneurial leaders, middle managers, or instructional leaders. Potential explanations for the lack of differences in role are provided. Clearly, additional research is needed to ascertain precisely what needs are being articulated by families in choice contexts and to what extent schools of choice...