ABSTRACT
Governors are part of that management even though governors are no longer called 'managers'. Governors' jobs, listed in legislation, include all the tasks commonly found in textbook definitions of what is meant by management in both schools and business. The tasks are to set the aims and objectives for schools, plan how those aims will be achieved, draw up a development plan and encourage innovation. Records of attendance and achievements must be kept, governors' visits must be made, inspectors welcomed and responses made to their reports, and school achievements must be checked against the objectives set in the strategic plan. A local authority appointed governor, the chairman of a two-teacher primary school, felt it was difficult to separate what he did into the headings in the list. Variations in the jobs that governors do arise from the way they work amongst themselves, with their headteachers and other staff.
