ABSTRACT
Any discussion of management skills within any context will soon highlight two basic issues. These are: ‘What is to be managed?’ which focuses attention on the essential nature of the organisation and upon its fundamental purposes, and ‘How shall it be managed?’ which raises questions about the type of skills and abilities which may be useful, desirable, applicable or necessary in the particular circumstances. The issues raised by these two questions are closely interconnected and may be difficult to separate in the daily turmoil of school life. Nevertheless, it might be useful here to consider them as discrete questions in order to highlight our concern with the need for all managers in secondary schools to acquire and develop those skills which might enable them to establish and sustain effective teams of teachers in their schools. The first of the two basic issues, addressed in the previous chapter, refers to the various technical, conceptual, human relations and external relations tasks that have to be managed in schools.
