Cladding Certainty

Angelita A. Gomez

Managing school teachers of approximately a class size is never easy, all possess individual differences in personality and ability in terms of work performance, never the less it is a good sign that the catalogue of specialized teaching and clerical job in store for everyone is filled.

The good thing is, the School Head can rest assured the job is done excellently with proper monitoring and evaluation. “The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t”, as the saying goes.

School Heads are not super heroes who can save everyone with their super powers, they are humans just like any of us who get tired and get fed up with the tons of work which needs to be done every day.

So many of their constituents get the idea that the only thing School Heads know is to designate work among teachers. A misconception we all need to discard.

H.L. Gray stated that the basic starting point of any management position is the analysis of the task of any organization. Many mistakes are being made by ordinary members of organizations in the setting up of management and administrative structures when they assume that there exist correct techniques and structures to universal validity to management irrespective of the nature of the specific organization as well.

Thus, according to Gray, it is customary to set up firm authoritarian hierarchies, specific and exclusive job functions and a formal committee system of delegation of responsibilities. Such structures are the essence of traditional management thinking and owe a good deal to the traditional way of running armies.

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The author is Master Teacher I at Pampanga High School