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Unit 12: Job Accountability, Management Training: Needs and Means

• focusing too much on administration and too little on management; Notes
• sidelining the education clients in the activities of the school;
• bureaucratic accountability; and
• denying others access to information.
Therefore, accountability should be regarded as one of the essential elements of school governance
to help strengthen the position of school managers, and share the much-contested power without
losing it.

12.1 Meaning of Job Accountability

In school education teachers and principal have to play some roles and have several responsibilities.
It is the accountability and commitment of a principal to accomplish the roles and responsibility in
school education. The review and observe that the fulfillment of responsibilities of teacher and
principal is called the accountability and commitment.
According I. K. Davies, accountability and commitment is the quality of work or performance assigned
of a task by an authority. It the person works according to direction or instruction and bound to
perform the task.
“Accountability is an obligation and responsibility of an individual to perform assigned duties to
best of his ability, capacity and efforts according the direction of his executive.”
“Accountability is reviewed of his subordinate or assistant to perform the his duty as assigned and
required by his boss or superior.

The term accountability in school education is given by pedagogy beliefs not by
educational technology. An affective aspect plays significant role and responsibility in
school education. It includes emotions, feelings, beliefs attitude. and values of teachers
and principal.

12.2 Need of Accountability

Accountability is an essential element of school governance. It is an obligation of the school to report
to its community about the quality of the services if offers. Accountability provides the school with
an opportunity to collect information about its performance and enter into a debate with its
community about the results of its exercise. The information from accountability can be used for
school development. Therefore, there must be a balance of powers of the school governing body and
the principal to accomplish quality education service delivery. It is not enough to simply state that
parents are responsible for school governance and principals deal with professional management
without clearly demarcating roles and indicating their meeting point. Every stakeholder or member
of the SGB must be prepared to play his/her part activity, and there must be openness to frankly
acknowledge the experience, knowledge and skills of each member. Each member has a valuable
expertise to offer for the betterment of the school. Schools must use the knowledge, skills and
experience of parents to improve or maintain standards. The standards of quality will be determined
by the quality of the accountability system.

12.3 Forms of Accountability

Generally we talk or discuss about the lack in our society. Now a days we are observing in every
profession even in teaching that we are lacking in professional commitment. Seminars and conferences
are being organized on value education because we are lacking organized on value education because

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