Effective School Management

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Do Schoolteachers Need to Learn Management?
• Instinct, Common Sense, Skills and Techniques
• What is Management? Who is a Manager?
• The Manager and the Organization
• Ethics and the Manager
• The School's Role and Mission: Are Education and Management Incompatible?
• Further Reading

Part I: Managing People

• Chapter 2: The Manager as a Leader
• Interpersonal Skills
• Management Style Models
• Orientation and Behaviour
• Dominant and Back-up Approaches
• Suiting Behaviour to Circumstances
• Recognizing Inappropriate Behaviour
• Leadership and Job Experience
• Passive/Political Orientation
• Style and the School Manager
• Discussion Topic
• Categories of Leadership
• Standards for Management and Leadership
• Characteristics of Headteachers and Deputy Headteachers
• Further Reading
• Chapter 3: Motivating People
• Motivation
• Whom do We Need to Motivate?
• Satisfying Needs
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• The Relevance of the Hierarchy
• Theory X and Theory Y
• Frederick Herzberg
• Involvement
• Achievement Needs
• The Self-Motivated Achiever
• Motivation Theory and the School Manager
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading
• Opinion Questionnaire
• Assessing the Motivation of Others
• Chapter 4: Taking and Implementing Decisions
• Making Things Happen
• Taking Decisions
• Logical Steps in Decision-Taking
• The Implementation of Decisions
• A Structure for Implementation
• Styles in Decision-Taking
• Consultative Decision-Taking – The ‘Management Contract’
• Commitment
• Delegation
• Key Principles
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading
• Chapter 5: Managing Meetings
• Meetings and the Manager
• Teamwork
• Tests of an Effective Meeting
• Purpose of the Meeting
• Large Meetings
• Decision-Taking
• Information Exchange
• Generation of Ideas
• Group Dynamics
• Preparing for a Meeting
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading
• Group Performance Checklist
• Chapter 6: Recruiting, Employing, Appraising, Developing and Dismissing Staff
• People as a Resource
• Recruitment of Staff
• Employing Staff
• The Workload Agreement
• Appraisal and Performance Management
• Discussion Topic
• Meeting Development Needs
• The Re-Entry Problem
• Group Training
• A Coherent Approach
• Dismissing Staff
• Picking up the Pieces
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading
• Chapter 7: Managing Conflict
• A Key Skill
• The Value of Conflict
• Reason and Emotion in Conflict
• The Dangers of Conflict
• Intergroup Competition
• Attitudes to Conflict
• Solving Problems of Conflict
• Handling Organizational Conflicts
• Preventing Unnecessary Conflict
• Guidelines for Handling Conflict
• Conflict-Management Skills
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading
• Conflict Orientation Questionnaire
• Role Revision Strategy
• Image Exchange
• School Review
• Chapter 8: Managing Yourself
• The Manager as a Resource
• The Use and Abuse of Time
• Establishing Priorities
• Criteria for Effectiveness
• Time-Management Techniques
• Managing Stress
• Assertiveness
• Developing Your Own Competence
• Managing Your Learning
• Managing Our Attitudes and Behaviour
• Equal Opportunities
• Positive and Negative Management
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading
• Criteria for Effectiveness – Establishing Priorities
• Use of Time Analysis
• Time Log

Part II: Managing the Organization

• Chapter 9: Organizations
• The Organizational Dimension
• Organizational Goals
• Stakeholders
• Environment
• Models of Organizations
• Elements of Organizations
• Interlocking Systems
• Hallmarks of Effective Schools
• Discussion Topics
• Further Reading
• Chapter 10: Teams
• The Nature of Teams
• Team-Building
• Managing Team Performance
• Discussion Topics
• Further Reading
• Formulating Objectives
• Chapter 11: Managing and Adapting the Curriculum
• Matching the Curriculum to the Need
• The National Curriculum
• Meeting the Needs of Tomorrow's Citizens
• Creating Positive Attitudes
• Involving the Stakeholders
• Corporate Planning
• Aims and Value Systems
• Curriculum Development in Practice
• Management of Early Years Education, Childcare and Playwork
• Leadership and Management in the Curriculum
• Managing Pupil Assessment
• Special Needs and the Inclusion Agenda
• Specialist Schools
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading
• Chapter 12: Managing Quality, Risk, Health and Safety
• Quality
• Risk
• Health and Safety
• Managing School Safety
• Some Areas of General Concern
• Out-of-School Activities
• Discussion Topics
• Further Reading
• Chapter 13: Managing Resources
• Resource Driven or Need Driven?
• Women and Educational Management
• Investing Money
• Local Management of Schools
• Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Best Value
• Budgeting and Financial Control
• Resource Control
• Adapting Existing Resources to Fit the Need
• Discussion Topics
• The Role of the Bursar and Fund-Raising
• Independent Contractors and Competitive Tendering
• Further Reading
• Chapter 14: Managing the Environment
• The Natural Environment
• External Relations
• The Angry Parent
• Parents as Partners
• Governors
• Skills Required for Dealing with Parents, Governors and Employers
• Managing an Ofsted Inspection
• The School in the Community
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading

Part III: Managing Change

• Chapter 15: Change Described
• The Nature of Change
• Appreciating the Complexity of Change
• Why Plans for Implementing Change Fail
• Discussion Topics
• Further Reading
• Chapter 16: Antecedents of Successful Change
• Organizational Conditions Conducive to Successful Change
• Managerial Qualities Needed to Handle Change
• Discussion Topics
• Further Reading
• Chapter 17: A Systematic Approach to Change
• Introduction to the Approach
• Assessing the Soundness of a Proposed Change
• The Reconnaissance
• Describing the Future
• Describing the Present
• Readiness and Capability
• Force-Field Analysis
• Problems to Be Tackled
• Resources for Change
• Discussion Topics
• Further Reading
• Chapter 18: Transition Management
• Transition Management Structure
• Tasks for the Transition Management
• Developing a Plan
• Hierarchy of Objectives
• Gaining Commitment
• Responsibility Charting
• Monitoring and Evaluating Change
• Discussion Topic
• Further Reading