The Education of Business Management

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This paper examines the dangers of an insensitive and undiscriminating transfer of business theory to educational management. This is important because education is increasingly borrowing ideas, strategies and terms from the business community. Where these borrowings are valid they increase an understanding of educational management and the ability to cope with it. Where invalid, however, they may distort a proper conception of education, and produce a version of educational management which destroys morale by undermining good educational practice. This paper therefore attempts a number of things. First, it asks why education has increasingly turned to business practices for its management theory. Then it examines ways in which schools may differ from other organisations. In the light of these it then reviews possible borrowings, and so indicates those which merit direct transfer, those which can only be treated as analogies, and finally those which ought to have little or no place in educational thinking.

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