Management theories and their Applications to School Administration

Management theories and their Applications to School Administration - A Sub Title Of The Book- Educational Management: New Perspectives

Overview

Many authors have written on management theories and principles beginning with classical to neo-classical, neo-behaviourists and system theory. Such people include Fredick Taylor, Henri Fayol, Douglas Macgregor, Max Waber, Elton Mayo, Herbert Simon, Chester Barnard, Mary Follet, Lynda Urwick and host of others as identified by Harris (2006).

If business organisations have benefited from management theories there is no reason why school organisations cannot because they are both formal organisations. Therefore, all theories and principles that apply to business organisations are equally applicable to schools as confirmed by Oyedeji (2013) who asserted that management theories and principles have helped in one way or the other to reduce anomalies experienced in education.