ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the nature of the crisis facing school managers and employers. It provides a comment on the nature of state employment, and then discusses current employer and management rights and concerns. The chapter deals with the introduction of human resource management into schools with particular reference to employee resourcing, appraisal and performance-related pay, and employee relations. Managers are the agents and representatives of the employer and, as far as employees and their unions are concerned, decisions by managers reflect employer policy and have the authority of employer support. The changes in the nature and location of the employer alongside other changes in the role of governors have meant that there has been a shift in management power within schools. Employee resourcing is the generic term for efforts by the management on behalf of the employer to staff the business with the people needed to run the business.
