ERIC Number: EJ1232023
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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Conditions That Support Middle Leaders' Work in Organisational and System Leadership: Hong Kong Case Studies
Bryant, Darren A.
School Leadership & Management, v39 n5 p415-433 2019
This study builds on research which contends that just as effective principals must lead across a broad purview of responsibilities in order to build successful schools, so too must middle leaders. Decentralisation of school management has resulted in an expansion of school principals' responsibilities, contributing to a further distribution of leadership responsibility to middle leaders. This conception of middle leadership requires a shift in understanding of the nature of middle leaders' work. There is vast potential for middle leaders to contribute to their schools beyond subject administration, yet the research base yields limited insight on such work and on how middle leaders can be supported to accomplish it. This research finds that middle leaders who expand their leadership responsibilities do so in contexts that utilise school mission, policy enactment and organisational design as platforms for enhanced middle leadership.
Descriptors: Case Studies, Middle Management, Institutional Mission, School Policy, Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrative Organization, School Administration, Administrator Responsibility, Leadership Role, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Change, Secondary Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Assistant Principals, Instructional Leadership, Capacity Building
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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