+

ROLE OF HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS IN SUSTAINING ADEC PEDAGOGICAL CHANGES

+ Being in the Middle

So if the middle is both the sensible and winning place to be, why are middle managers not recognized as instrumental in the change process ?

+Dissatisfaction with Change

Equation?

Richard Beckhard and David Gleicher`s equation of change

Δ = D x V x F > R

+ Dissatisfaction with John

kotter`s ModelEstablishing a sense of urgency

Creating the guiding coalition

Developing a change vision

Communicating the vision for buy in

Empowering broad based action

Generating short term wins

Never letting up

Incorporating changes into the culture

+ Why Middle Managers

It is tough to be a middle manager. On the one hand, you are pulled by the centripetal force of senior management. This is the force that demands seamless and sometimes unquestioning execution of organizational strategy. It requires you to toe the company line, even when you believe the line is flawed. An outlet for those who have unsuccessfully tried to influence organizational direction is to exit the company. A more common but insidious alternative is to remain and become a mindless conveyor of decisions from the top.

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+School Middle Managers: The

Frequently Forgotten Tier in Schools

The literature on school leadership often overlooks the critical role that middle managers play in leading teams of teachers to ensure that curricula are developed, delivered and assessed, programmes are evaluated and teachers are appraised.

+Why Middle Managers?

Draw the attention of the school administrators in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi into the significant contribution of the heads of the departments to the educational sector and how they can be properly positioned to spearhead pedagogical changes in the school curriculum and giving a keen consideration the ADEC reforms.

Personal interest in middle managers

+Driving Force Behind Research

Paper

Draw attention to the leadership role middle managers can play in running day to day matters in organization in general and in time of change in particular.

+HODs Management

Challenge

Middle managers have to work with change at 4 levels: 

1. The enterprise’s needs

2. The team’s needs

3. Supporting individuals in their team 

4. As individuals themselves. 

+ School Structure Model

Principal

HODs

Teachers

+ Literature Review

The literature review has examined and evaluated research studies that have investigated the role of middle level management in the educational system and how it can be used to overcome non-compliance with the ADEC Educational reforms.

Books and Research journals from 2003-2012 were selected and studied to find consistent and contrasting views

+ Literature Review

. The themes explored were:

1. Pedagogical changes.

2. ADEC reforms.

3. Teachers resistance to change.

4. Principals` leadership style.

5. HOD`s pedagogical and leadership competencies and skills.