How successful school principals balance their leadership and management roles to make a difference

Abstract

Most research into how principals use their time has focused on what they do in the short term: minutes, hours, days, or weeks. In this chapter, we propose that effectiveness should be determined by what principals achieve in the long term: Specifically, we explore how successful principals balance their leadership and management roles to be more successful school leaders. In doing so, we outline a model called the total role concept, which identifies four key role dimensions: (a) core, (b) expected, (c) augmented, and (d) potential. Management is defined as the core and expected dimensions of their role, while leadership is defined as the augmented and potential dimensions. Drawing on findi..