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of all. Undoubtedly, they provide a base for thinking about the management of a school
as an organization and the education of young people which schools are intended to
provide. Education is the learning process by which values, attitudes, information and
skills are acquired and integrated. Management Education is the process of learning
values, attitudes, information and skills to achieve desired relations between resources
and objectives. (Choudhury, 2001)
Management of educational organization means setting realistic goals and
drawing up plans to achieve them. Those plans involve distinct phase, setting objectives,
allocating resources, delivering results, evaluation the impact, and resetting objectives in
the light of evaluation (Thomas and Martin, 1996). Good management may be
summarized in the cycle as:
Planning
Evaluating Organizing
Monitoring Providing
Maintaining
Figure 1: The Cycle of Good Management
Source: Brighouse and Woods (1999)
The goal of educational management at the institutional level is to achieve the
social and system goals of education plus any additional objectives peculiar to the
specific institution, to do this the manager will need to understand more completely the
existing motivation of their fellow administrators, teachers and pupils (Kemmerer and
Windham, 1997). Sharing of management tasks and ownership of the need for them is
crucial to successful school.
Cyert and March (1992) argues the, an organization is developed to achieve
certain goals or objectives by group activity. The centrality of the goal orientation of
schools and colleges is common to most of the different theoretical approaches to the
subject. There is disagreement, though, about the value of formal statements or purpose,
about ―Whose‖ purposes may become the objectives of the organization and about ―how‖
the institution‘s goals are determined.
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2.4 Statement of the Problem
It is an established theory that proper organizational behaviour ensures the full utilization
of available educational facilities and resources for the development of the organization.
Hence the study was focused on Role of Educational Managers in Educational
Organizations of NWFP.
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