Role of Leadership and Management as School Head: A Case Study of Bulawayo Government Secondary Schools in Zimbabwe | Chapter 4 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 1

 The study's main aim was to determine in what way or manner any of the earlier abilities may increase output in government secondary schools. The purpose of the study search out investigate the kinds of skills required for management secondary school heads to function effectively. Therefore, the study look at whether school heads could be favorable whether they secondhand management skills, guidance abilities, or both. The study was conducted in Bulawayo's public secondary schools. The only rhythmical utilized to determine schools' academic achievement was their O' level result. Sixty respondents were contained in the sample, including heads of secondary schools, section authorities, and other main figures in the education scheme including BSPZ coordinators and currently hired secondary school inspectors.  Document study, observation, interviews and representative survey group discussions were used to collect dossier under the following themes: leadership abilities and tasks, management skills and tasks and the ideas of change, motivation, school responsibility and vision, community difficulty and teachers’ needs to finally disclose information the head’s recommended attributes. The appraisal of school administration revealed metamorphosis in the task with institutions evenly moving away from collect on day-to-era neat management tasks towards attracting on a unique, situational created and visionary approach to school management which demands more leadership values. Interviews of education officers told that, whilst all government schools were directed by government policy, procedure was not meant to kill the individual style of heads. The focus group discussions disclosed that leadership was needed in instruction as an answer to the vital and turbulent environment. The conferences revealed that with the changing times, it was the responsive leader who hopeful able to identify approaches that would take advantage of the changing atmosphere; the strategies that would attack and encroach line with the globalization styles, who was needed by today’s school. Thus, most accused believed that heads of schools could use guidance skills to design competitive advantage and uniqueness of schools, still the issue of how policy maybe successfully spun into heads’ plans remained debatable. The study accordingly recommended that schools as business arrangings needed leaders the one clearly assumed their role in the school production process.

Author(s) Details:

Lillie Beth Hadebe,
Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe.

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