LEADERSHIP CRITIQUE
Establishing a Framework for Leadership
Critical Issues in the Scenario
Leadership Action Needed
Type of Leadership
Behavior Needed
Theory Informing the Leadership Behavior
Anticipated
Results
The school is failing to meet the state and local standards.
The principal needs to revise the school affairs and consult with the teachers and the community.
Participative Leadership.
Participative Leadership Theory.
The school to update their systems to meet the needed standards.
Little time for professional growth and curriculum activities.
Create time for curriculum activities and show the importance of being involved in them.
Transformational leadership.
Situational Leadership Theory.
The school to create ample time for the curriculum activities and the students to participate in them.
No motivation for teachers.
Ms. Williams needs to go back to the drawing board and look at the reward systems in place and correct them.
Transactional leadership.
Situational Leadership Theory.
Teachers are expected to put more effort and work towards the set goals according to their motivational benefits.
Lack of interest towards the school by the stakeholders.
Analyze the stakeholder’s interests, ask advice from them.
Participative/ democratic leadership.
Participative Leadership Theory.
The stakeholders being more involved with the school matters as well as the school meeting their interests.
Lack of rules and regulations in the school.
Hold a meeting with the teachers and parents to work on the rules needed to govern the school.
Bureaucratic leadership.
Contingency Theory.
The entire school to follow the set rules and regulations to bring about smooth operations.
Risk of trying new approaches in the school.
Be a risk taker and go forth in implementing the new approaches needed in the school.
Autocratic Leadership.
Contingency Theory.
The school is embracing the new approaches and not being against them.
The article describes a rough situation of a high school in Bolton where there is a new principal, Ms. Williams, and she has to figure out what is happening in the school, what is the cause and how to go about the current situation at hand. The information provided is relevant as it will help the principal in getting to understand the situation in the learning institution. And so this article will mainly focus on critiquing the information provided about the school.
According to the assumptions made about Foster High School, there is need for a lot of cooperation from the teachers in order to brainstorm on new ways of governing the school and bring about its positive productivity in student’s performance by increasing the percentage of graduating students. The weakness of the information provided in the article is that it only describes the school and its wrong affairs, but there is little focus on some good that the school has been involved in or has done that could actually show case, for example, the reason for the school having an overcrowded population of students despite it not meeting the local and state’s standards and yet there are nine other high schools in Bolton. Having a leadership framework in a bad situation is important as it shows that the principal might be competent in ensuring the school is in good condition and that the community can associate itself with. The framework is needed to correct the past mistakes that were embraced by the school.
In conclusion, there is the essence of having a leadership framework in place. There is a need for mobilization to ultimately yield a positive outcome. And hence, Ms. Williams needs to carefully think about the leadership styles to embrace to correct the management and leadership framework of Foster High School.