Abstract
M.Ed.
The research explores effective structures as an aspect of school management implications for whole school development. One of the main tasks of a manager/principal is to create, maintain or adapt effective structures for collaboration that will promote efficiency and harmony of the school. Principals should be conversant with how these effective structures of collaboration will influence school's performance and explore ways of managing them. To form a logical argument, the first part of this chapter deals with the introduction of the research, followed by the problem statement, aims of the study, method of research, the demarcation of the research, clarification of concepts, plan of study and conclusion. These effective structures of collaboration should be in line with transformation and democratisation that entails accountability and transparency. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 (RSA, 1996: 14(b)) requires that schools be transformed and democratised. Educators are now expected to make critical decisions in the management of the school to ensure that the school is managed and administered
efficiently and effectively. One of the biggest challenges schools face is to determine what type of effective structures for collaboration best meet the school's needs (Kolb, Osland & Rubin, 1995: 523). It is evident that management structures in schools need to be reviewed. A major concern is the management structures used by the principals in schools that led to the decline of effective teaching and learning in the past.