Human resource management as a tool for school effectiveness
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Date
2000-11
Authors
Pheto, P. S. S.
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University of the Free State (South Campus)
Abstract
The change from apartheid to post-apartheid society in South Africa has far reaching
results for the country in general and education in particular. This places great
challenges to educational managers in schools, particularly in in-effective schools and
the transformation of such schools. A challenge to principals, deputy principals and
heads of departments is to become catalysts of change and to promote
democratization of management in schools. They need to develop educators, as key
organizational assets, in their schools and to promote co-operation in the
management and transformation of especially in-effective schools.
The aim of the study was to show how an insightful and holistic application of human
resource management and development, as a sub-discipline of school management,
has the potential to make dramatic, meaningful and practical contributions to the
rehabilitation of in-effective schools by identifying the successful structural
components of effective schools, and then applying these to ineffective schools. The
methodology used comprised identifying the causes of school in-effectiveness in
specific schools in the Odendaalsrus District, and then indicating how these problem
areas could be resuscitated by applying similar structures which were working
successfully in effective schools to these in- effective schools.
The role of the principal as a human resource practitioner was investigated, while
suggestions were given as to how the principal could improve the effective running of
the school by:
• Improving his or her knowledge and skills of human resource management by
further self study, as well as using successful programmes used by other schools.
• A participatory management style, where all staff members contribute to the aims
and objectives of the school.
• Introducing in-service training programmes, workshops and seminars for staff
members.
• Encouraging and promoting further study among staff members.
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Human resource management, School management, Principal's role, In-service training programmes, Dissertation (M.Ed. (Postgraduate Education))--University of the Free State, 2000