ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a long debated question – about the relationship between individuals, their organisations, and their community – in order to examine some key terms such as 'power', 'teamwork' and 'quality'. It seeks to apply these to good practice in modern educational management. The vast amount of writing on teamwork in management reveals comparably huge variations of views and approaches. Yet a newcomer to management studies might be forgiven for assuming that it had just been invented, given the proliferation in the 1990s of whole books and journals devoted to issues of quality management. Natasha Josefowitz accounts of women in management provided a comprehensive rejection of the 'great man' view of leadership. T. Greenfield's point about the nature of schools and colleges is fundamentally important for their managers. It reminds them that the values which govern their organisations are, like the organisations themselves, 'only an idea', and that ideas can be changed.
