| Abstract [eng] |
Relevance of the theme. As modern educational organizations seek to adapt to constantly changing processes and consumer needs, they have to initiate changes and stimulate innovations their selves. Leadership, as development of strategy of innovative education, increases competitiveness, efficiency and effectiveness. It is also an assumption for high quality of education and changes in culture of organization as well as assured sharing of responsibilities. Concept of leadership and examples of its typology are analyzed in the Master‘s thesis. Importance of leadership is discussed and relevance of development of innovative strategies in education as well as assumptions of development of distributed leadership in educational organizations is revealed. Object of the research: Evaluation of leadership as innovative strategy implementation in educational organizations in different groups of educational subjects. Purpose of the research: To theoretically motivate importance of leadership as implementation of innovative strategy in educational organizations and reveal evaluation of this strategy in groups of educators and managers of educational organizations. The following research methods have been applied: analysis of scientific literature, questionnaires (including both open and closed questions) and descriptive statistics. Participants of the research were educators and managers of Šiauliai educational organizations. According to the results of the research the following conclusions can be done: innovative leadership strategies are treated positively and the respondents understand significance of their implementation, however implementation is not very active. As the model of distributed leadership is viewed positively by the respondents, it can be assumed that it is being applied in practice, however it has been noticed that the school managers hardly share responsibilities and leader’s position with other members of the school community. Although slight differences between opinion of school managers and teachers exist, positive evaluations of leadership in educational organizations dominate. The hypothesis was confirmed. Managers of the educational organizations valuate leadership as implementation of innovative strategy in educational organizations more positively than the educators, according to many of the criteria. However it should be noted that some factors, influencing implementation of distributive leadership model, are met. |
