Abstract
M.Ed. (Education Management)
Human relations as a management strategy considers the principal as a staff specialist charged with the caring for, and maintaining of, the human side of the school. The
principal's aim as a human relations manager must be to get along with teachers, be sympathetic to their problems, and tend to their idiosyncrasies to gain their co-operation.
The principal plays a vital role in the establishment of interpersonal relationships in the management of the school. The increasing requirements in respect of human relations responsibilities may result in greater pressures being placed on school principals. The principal should strive to execute his management of human relations in such a way that relationships of trust, understanding and authority will be established. Principals must go beyond merely speaking about what the school could be. They must establish relations that enable colleagues to experience some of those possibilities.