 To Be or Not to Be a Head Teacher: The Need of Hybrids as Deparadoxification MachinesCamilla Sløk
Chapter 8 in Hybrid Forms of Governance, 2012, pp 148-166 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The management of professionals traditionally shapes a dichotomy between the professionals and the management/strategic levels. This chapter seeks to challenge this dichotomy in favour of talking of management of professionals as hybrid leadership. I argue that there is a need in the public sector for hybrid leaders among professionals. The leader has both to continue being as professional as the professionals, but also not continue being a professional, in order to take care of the interests of the professionals and their clients. This means that the leader of professionals has to know the professional (i.e. the general element) in the particular, as well as seeing the particular case as part of the larger context of the organization: economy, environment, evaluations, etc. The leader has to be able to think strategically in relation to professional work. The case of the Danish head teachers displays this role of professionals leading professionals quite clearly, since the Danish teachers Union (DLF) insists on having only teachers as leaders of the local schools. Keywords: Strategic Management; Public Management; School Leadership; Hybrid Form; Executive Board (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36300-7_9 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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