Modelling Distributed Leadership and Management Effectiveness: Primary School Senior Management Teams in England and Wales

Wallace, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-9689 2002. Modelling Distributed Leadership and Management Effectiveness: Primary School Senior Management Teams in England and Wales. School Effectiveness and School Improvement 13 (2) , pp. 163-186. 10.1076/sesi.13.2.163.3433

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Abstract

This article argues that the notion of distributed leadership and management has potential to illuminate school-level relationships, a significant area of school effectiveness and improvement research and development activity. It reports how research findings were used inductively to model effectiveness of senior management teams in British primary schools, which represent one form of distributed leadership and management. Difficulties in establishing effectiveness are reviewed; a heuristic model of team operation is put forward as a basis for identifying team effectiveness; relevant criteria employed by informants in research schools and inspectors are summarised in relation to the model, supported by findings from observation of meetings; and key findings and judgements of effectiveness are synthesised as a speculative contingency model of team effectiveness focusing on balancing contradictory beliefs in a management hierarchy and in equal contribution within the team. An agenda for research, practice and policy is suggested.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0924-3453
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 10:40
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/40988

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