Exploring the Theories of Educational Management

 

 

    Educational management introduces elements and skills that are ideally fundamental in creating a successful organization. Changes happen internally and externally for the organization to manage in the global and local development. As today's generation continues through its technological innovations, management remains a powerful asset. Planning, organizing, recruiting for positions, and coordinating are some primary factors that make up a standardized system. This is to ensure that the implementation and compliance to the policies and plans are followed through. In an educational organization, the management is classified according to approaches. These approaches are integral to accomplishing practices and goals complementary to the organization’s vision and mission.

An enhanced quality educational management will have a good educational leadership style that improves administrative performance, team building, optimize utilization of all the resources, and enhance individual and school innovation. Learning and understanding the five principles: the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling (P-O-S-D-C) principles are the keys to having successful educational management and these principles provide guides to make a more accurate decision, save time and enable peoples to pass information from one generation to the next for the continual improvement in the educational system.

According to Lewis, Goodman, and Fandt (1995), different workloads that are optimized with a clear understanding of their role in the process performance is an assurance that there are development and implementation along with constant improvement on the educational system being managed. Widespread research on information of educational policy and strategy along with an application of standards for quality management systems are involved in the making. In a sense, a clear direction of creating a network of concise and effective teaching equals a good quality management system.

The identified major sources of educational management-related issues were discussed to address the needs of the educational system. The resources (students, staff), materials (funds, facilities, equipment, etc.) and constraints (policy, regulation, ideology, etc.), administrative and managerial issues (including power, curricular authority, teaching strategies, nature of programs, and overall production process in education) are some crucial matters to look on. The results of the educational process: number of successful students, retention rate, dropouts, or how the educational system is meeting the objectives for setting it up. Society needs and aspirations brought the social, political, cultural, economic, technological issues which affect the management of education.

Different approaches are used to benefit the evaluation in choosing the best model for educational management. Examples of management models include formal, collegial, and political. All of which have their uniqueness that benefits on managing a choice of the educational system. To summarize them each briefly, a formal model of management emphasizes accountability and authority that go through rational processes. The collegial model has a strong approach of normative orientation and consensus of the many. The political model is focused on the interest and the prevalence of conflict. What these three have in common is their approach to their subjectiveness, ambiguous goals, and cultural intellect.

If we analyze the country's approach to their management of the educational system, it all comes down to the communication and leadership of the constituents within the educational organization. Several educational institutions embrace one model approach while others embody all models.

Therefore, understanding the theories of educational management will ensure an organization achieves organizational goals or objectives, identify key indicators to measure the performance set that is essential to improve the standard of the school. As we all know that, school goals provide the crucial sense of direction that creates an empowering harmonious environment that cultivates values demonstrating respect and taking responsibility. Human interaction encourages students to make connections between their worlds and the worlds of others, to build on shared interests and commonalities, and to respect differences for the development of human resources with the boundaries of the school. Thus, the cooperation of the community and the government in utilizing the financial resources to manage the school plant, curricular and co-curricular activities which is planned and guided by the school. Positive communication and interaction in understanding the needs of each other are vital components to achieve the set objectives.

 

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