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Educational Management

Notes administrator should ensure that orders are clearly understood and faithfully followed. Written
orders are better understood and remembered.
Direction is not merely to point the way, but also to compel action. Here comes the role of authority.
The administrator has authority, knowledge and personality to give direction. For good results, he
should respect these characteristics in the colleagues and subordinates and give direction and orders
with regard to the dignity of the recipients. This ensures cooperation. Direction is best when it gives
opportunities for wide participation. However, division of authority is not advisable when matters
require prompt and specific decisions. So far as possible, direction should be given according to the
wishes of those directed. Self-satisfied and Self-respecting individuals, doing their work with purpose,
efficiency, Direction should contribute to the development of these attitudes, for they are the means
of good work.

2.5 Controlling
It is the process of directing or guiding an activity and also judging it. It is closely related to the
elements of the administrative process, such as planning, organisation, etc., and contribute to these
elements. Control is the application of the power and authority to hold the workers responsible for
their actions. Control is require in all spheres of the educative process, aims and objectives, teachers
and students, instruction and equipment, finance and purpose, e.g., for control of finance we need
the budget, accounts and auditing.
Aspects of Control : Control has four aspects —the power that controls, the device of using the
power, the process of applying the power, and the purpose for using the power. For applying
control, we first determine the point where it is needed. Then, we choose the form of power to be
applied. Next, we decide about the device to be used, and finally, we evaluate or judge the results
of control to see whether its purpose has been ful-filled. All the time we have to remember that the
central purpose of control is to bring about improvement and to promote the realisation of the goals
of education.
Control involves both power and devices. The power of control are legal authority social custom,
superior knowledge of facts and principles and personal attitudes developed by professional training
and ethics. The devices of control are many, such as policies, objectives, budgets, salaries, accounts,
building, equipment, time-table, curriculum, methods rules and regulations, personal records, reports,
promotion, etc. Each activity or situation has its own device of control. Thus, budget controls
expenditure, philosophy and sociology, the aims and objectives and theories of learning control the
methods of teaching. The various powers work generally in combination with each other and one
or more devices and powers may be applied simultaneously. Educational activity is very complex,
and so a large variety of devices and powers are needed for control.

2.6 Evaluating

It is an important part of the management process. It is based on the assumption that performance
can be measured and compared with set standards or values. Evaluation permeates the whole
administrative process and is continuous. It fosters the realisation of the aims and objectives of the
process. As the administrative process starts, evaluation also starts. Its purpose is to make a captaincies
appraisal, discover the weak points of the administrative process and rectify these by modifying the
process.

Advantages of Evaluation
The following are the advantages :
(1) It is necessary to judge the effectiveness of the management, process in order to improve it. It
should lead to continuous improvement by finding out what objectives are being fulfilled and
how far. Thus, it is concerned with both quality and quantity, for it answers the questions
“what values” ? And “how much”?

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