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Unit 1: Educational Management: Concept, Nature and Scope ...

• Managements may be seen as a person or a group of people. For example, a teacher could say Notes
‘The school management has changed the timetable in the middle of the term’. This could be
referring to you, as the head alone, or to all the senior staff, or it could refer to the members of
the board of governors or school committee.
• Scope of School Management
• We mean the area within which functioning of educational management takes place. The
scope of educational management today is as vast as that of education itself. Any activity
conducive to the, achievement of educational goal, is a part of educational management. Such
activities could be at the school level, at the college level, at the university level or at the control
level.
• Goal Development: The educational system is a sub-system of a society, and therefore the
society not only provides human and non-human resources but also certain expectations that
the system of education will achieve certain goal. Since society is in a constant process of change,
needs of the society change an so do the goal specifications.
• Programme Planning and Actualization : According to the Oxford English Dictionary. Planning
is “to design some actions to be done before hand”. Philips regards it is “the process of setting
in advance a pattern of action to bring about overall national policies by the closest possible
means and end.”
• Organization : Organization has been a problem in the field of education. The debate over the
control of education has over and again raised the salient issue of how educational machinery
should be best organised, politically, professionally and administratively.

• Principles of educational management
• Henri Fayol (1916) listed principles of management with regards to human activities. They
were :
• division of work
• authority, responsibility and accountability
• discipline
• unity of command
• unity of direction

• centralisation ; decentralisation
• scalar chain (the chain of command in an organisation)
• remuneration of personnel
• subordination of individual interest to general interest
• equity
• stability of tenure of personnel
• initiatives
• The characteristics of successful school management are given in the following points :
(i) Flexibility,
(ii) Practicability,
(iii) Confirmity to the social and political philosophy of the country.
(iv) Efficiency.
(v) Successful achievement of desired objectives.

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