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Educational Management Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 12: Job Accountability, Management Training:

Needs and Means

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
12.1 Meaning of Job Accountability
12.2 Need of Accountability
12.3 Forms of Accountability
12.4 Meaning of Management Training
12.5 Need of Management Training
12.6 Importance of Management Training
12.7 Summary
12.8 Keywords

12.9 Review Questions
12.10 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarised as below :
• To explain about the Meaning of Job Accountability
• To discuss about the Need of Accountability
• To describe about Forms of Accountability
• To explain about the Meaning of Management Training
• To discuss about the Need of Management Training

• To describe about the Importance of Management Training

Introduction
In recent years there have been fundamental changes to and renewal of the education system. The
changes have culminated in reform legislation and policy initiatives. In the context of the India
education system, the object of the reform has fundamentally been the redress of imbalances created
in the previous dispensation and the re-storation of the culture of teaching and learning — thereby
improving standards. In the process of change, traditional practices are replaced by unfamiliar yet
critical and essential elements necessary for proper management of institutions. The new path set
on course by reform legislation and policy ushered in a new era in the management of schools
whereby conventional notions of school management are, transcended. Consequently, the levers of
power at school level are affected significantly. There is a shift from emphasis on management to
governance. A new framework of governance is built on accountability. It means that school managers
must reposition themselves in such a way that they overcome
• rule driven bureaucracy;

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