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Courtney, Steven J.; McGinity, Ruth – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2022
System leadership continues to be constructed largely as a desirable, even normative, evolution of educational leadership, with critiques often focusing on implementation rather than principles. This belies its increasingly recognised role in processes of disintermediation, in which the 'middle tier' comprising local government is dismantled. In…
Descriptors: Leadership, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Governance
Gilbride, Neil; James, Chris; Carr, Sam – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
The way school principals make sense of the context of their work shapes their actions. As in all adults, principals' sense-making capability is a function of the ego and can change over time. Adult ego development theory describes distinct, qualitatively different stages of sense-making ability. The research reported here assessed the adult ego…
Descriptors: Principals, Adults, School Administration, Administrator Behavior
Gibson, Mark T.; Simon, Susan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
This article explores the effects on former principals who have undergone involuntary job dissolution. It draws upon a study of 10 former principals who have experienced involuntary job dissolution in England and Australia; however, none of the participants were dismissed. Hour-long, one-to-one interviews were conducted with each participant and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Motivation
Guihen, Laura – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
This article draws on the findings of an in-depth study which sought to explore the career histories and professional aspirations of 12 women deputy head teachers in England. In view of the ongoing underrepresentation of women in secondary headship and the scarcity of literature focusing solely on deputy heads, the study aimed to gain an insight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Women Administrators, Administrator Attitudes
Cousin, Susan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
In 2008 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development presented system leadership (leadership beyond a single institution) as more effective than traditional approaches to public services delivery in responding to the external drivers of globalisation, new technologies and increasing societal complexity. This paper reports the…
Descriptors: School Administration, Educational Administration, Global Approach, Principals
Hill, Ron; James, Chris – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This article reports research into the role and responsibilities of the chairs of governing bodies of further education colleges and sixth-form colleges in England. Further education colleges and sixth-form colleges represent a significant part of post-16 educational provision in England. Every college in the sector has a governing body, which has…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Principals, Governance, Governing Boards
Graham, Andrew T. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
This small-scale case study focused on academic managers to explore the ways in which they control the workload of academic staff and the extent to which they use the workload model in performance management of academic staff. The links that exist between the workload and performance management were explored to confirm or refute the conceptual…
Descriptors: Administrators, Faculty Workload, Personnel Management, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Cottrell, Matthew; James, Chris – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
The experience of headteacher socialization has been described as challenging and often traumatic for new headteachers. The research reported in this article provides a theoretical explanation of that experience by analysing the socialization of new primary school headteachers in England from a role boundary perspective. The role boundary is the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Socialization
Hulme, Rob; McKay, Jane; Cracknell, David – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This article explores the impact of changing policy priorities on the role of director of children's services, before and after the economic crisis of 2008 and the election of the coalition government. The role of director of children's services from 2003 to 2010 was driven by the New Labour imperative to deliver regionally based integrated…
Descriptors: Administrators, Administrator Role, Change, Public Policy
Townsend, Andrew – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
A range of different constructs are used to describe and define the way that leadership operates in education settings. This range can be presented as binary categories of leadership, in which either one, or the other form of leadership is preferred, but not both. An example of this is the contrast made between solo and distributed leadership. A…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Case Studies, Network Analysis, Educational Administration
Woods, Charlotte; Armstrong, Paul; Bragg, Joanna; Pearson, Diana – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
This article examines illustrative cases of partnerships from a government-funded programme of experimental projects in England designed to test out the potential of senior business managers to provide leadership across a group of schools. The article places the programme within the context of international public service reforms and, more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrators, Public Service, Partnerships in Education
Crow, Gary M. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
The headteacher's role in school improvement and the changing nature of the role suggest the need to investigate how new school leaders learn their jobs, that is, their socialization to the leader role. This study has two purposes: (1) to identify the content and methods used in the professional and organizational socialization experiences of new…
Descriptors: Socialization, School Restructuring, Mentors, Educational Change