ABSTRACT
The scope of school personnel management has usually been restricted to staff appointments with some attention paid to induction of new staff and training for existing staff. This chapter suggests that the scope should be extended into policies on motivation. It discusses the need for personnel management and a motivation policy for personnel: governors, and staff. School staff and school governors seem excluded from a recognition of their similar personnel management needs. The 1990s bring a need for attention to be directed towards a more formalised introduction of personnel management in schools and an acceptance of its importance. Sanction operation is, however, occasional whereas maintaining the motivators is the on-going, and much more extensive, process of personnel management. Governors' extended powers in the field of staff selection and sanctioning have tended to overshadow the power of school governors to act in the important area of motivation.
