EDUCATIONA

L
MANAGEMEN
T, THEORY,
AND
PRACTICE
Darwin C. Gonzales
Introduction
Education is one of substantial factors of efficiency
and speed of economical development. It presents
social value for itself, because operations
improvement and changing of social relations
depend at the most of people’s knowledge and
education. Schooling qualifies a person to be an
active agent of economical changes. The
management of the organizations of economical
type is similar as the management in school system.
In spite of some critics' opinion that management can
not be applied in the field of school system, there
are very certain opportunities for it if general
observing of government participation in school
managing changes. Pedagogical – educational
institutions have to become more independent in
the process of decision making cannected to
management of their systems, because they know it
at the best.
THE NATURE,
SCOPE AND
FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL
MANAGEMEN
T
EDUCATIONAL
MANAGEMENT
 Educational management is a field of study
and practice concerned with the operation of
educational organizations. There is no single
generally accepted definition of the subject
because its development has drawn heavily on
several more firmly established disciplines,
including sociology, political science,
economics and general management.
 Bolam (1999: 194) defines educational
management as ‘an executive function for carrying
out agreed policy’. He differentiates management
from educational leadership which has ‘at its core
the responsibility for policy formulation and, where
appropriate, organizational transformation’
(ibid.: 194).
Nature and Scope
 Management is goal-oriented:
Management is not an end in itself. It is a
means to achieve certain goals.
 Management is universal: Management is

an essential element of every organised

activity irrespective of the size or type of
activity.
 Management is an Interactive Force: The
essence of management lies in the
coordination of individual efforts in to a
team.
 Management is a Social Process:

Management is done by people, through

people and for people.
 Management is Intangible: management is an
unseen or invisible force. It cannot be seen but
its presence can be felt everywhere in the form
of results.
 Management is an art as well as Science: It

contains a systematic body of theoretical

knowledge and it also involves the practical
application of such knowledge.
FUNCTIONS
The management function is assigned to
managers, leaders respectively. Leaders and
managers with their management, guidance
and planning ought to create positive working
climate, so that the participants in school
system would take pains and as well invest
more greater endeavour in it. People like to be
motivated and led, and, of course, they dislike
to be controlled and frightened by sticky
forms of management.
 The Four Functions of Management

Planning
Select goals
& ways to
attain them
Controlling Organizing Assign
Monitor responsibility for
activities & tasks
make
corrections
Leading Use
influence to
motivate
 TOP MANAGEMENT

MIDDLE MANAGEMENT

LOWER MANAGEMENT