- Title
- Strategic leadership: an educational leader imperative
- Creator
- Eacott, Scott
- Relation
- Perspectives on Educational Leadership Issue 7, p. 1-2
- Relation
- http://www.acel.org.au/index.php?id=410
- Publisher
- Australian Council for Educational Leaders
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- Strategy and strategic leadership have been overlooked largely in leadership literature. The study of strategic leadership is relatively new, although Hofer & Schendel rechristened business administration as strategic management in 1978. In recent times, the role of strategic leadership in schools has earned greater significance as a result of the international trends towards school-based management (SBM); reforms in school governance requiring school leaders to adopt business-like practices, including developing an organizational vision, strategic planning, marketing, listening to customers and observing market trends; greater autonomy and self governance altering the school leadership paradigm; and education systems recognising the need to have leaders trained in management. It is argued here that strategic leadership is not a new or different form of leadership, but rather, a leadership imperative for all school leaders regardless of their chosen leadership style.
- Subject
- educational leadership; school-based management; strategic leadership; management skills
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44901
- Identifier
- uon:5910
- Identifier
- ISSN:1448-0476
- Language
- eng
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