... 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. © MCB UP...

... 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...

.... © MCB UP Limited 2002 Management Organizational change Education In the introduction to this special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration, Meyer (2002a) reflects back on 25 years of writing about educational organizations as “loosely coupled” systems and asks...

... embraced the ideology of the new public management with little serious consideration of the independent character of cultural and educational spheres. An ethic of responsibility, on the other hand, entails the rational selection of means, ethical or otherwise (including violence), to attain valued ends...

...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...

..., or exchange information. She expanded on Austin and Brown’s conclusion that the assistant’s time is spent primarily interacting with people as opposed to time spent, for example, on program development or curricular issues. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Schools Leadership Education Management...

... 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...

...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...

... grant from the United States Department of Education Fund for Innovation in Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The purpose of the grant was to assist teachers in implementing state content standards through cognitive coaching^SM, nonverbal classroom management...

... most recent research – developing and applying this framework to a cluster of problems about administrative practice and the nature of practical knowledge. Organizational learning Leadership Education Management Educational administration has enjoyed a healthy period of intellectual...

... affect the student learning. Leadership Management Schools Researchers have examined the role of the assistant principal in an attempt to assimilate the published information about the position. One of the scholars is Greenfield (1985a) who has an extensive article that updates...

... waiting to be explored through the application of the research method, unstructured observational studies. Little consensus exists about how to define administrative practice other than as a science or an art (Gronn, 1994), and throughout this paper the term manager is used interchangeably to mean...

...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...

...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...

... as entrepreneurial leaders, middle managers, or instructional leaders. Potential explanations for the lack of differences in role are provided. Crow (1992) and Kerchner (1988) have developed theoretical frameworks for how the principal’s role may be different in choice environments. While Crow posits...