Performance Management in Bangladeshi Schools: Head Teachers’ Perception

Iffat Naomee

doi:10.47191/ijcsrr/v3-i11-05

Abstract

Performance Management is a very important task for the management of an educational institution. However, this concept is not yet widely acknowledged by most of the educational institutions of Bangladesh. This small-scale qualitative study thus focused on performance management in Bangladeshi schools. The main objective of this study was to explore head teachers’ perception about performance management, their roles in performance management and the challenges that they face while managing performance. Six secondary school head teachers were selected through convenient sampling and were interviewed using semi- structured interview guide. The findings revealed that the head teachers’ concept about performance management is not very clear and they mostly measure teachers’ performance on the basis of students’ scores in the examinations. Results also showed that head teachers sometimes fail to provide effective feedback on teachers’ performance which in turn hampers the teachers’ productivity. This study recommends that head teachers themselves need proper training on performance management and there should be a proper guideline on performance management in every educational institution. The researcher believes that this study along with its findings will help improve the overall performance of the schools as well as the individual performance of the teachers and the head teachers.

Highlights

Performance management is a complex, difficult and time-consuming process which facilitates people management by bringing together a lot of components [1]
Perception of Performance Management The findings show that the concept of performance management is not very clear to the head teachers
One head teacher explained that he considers monitoring teachers’ classroom performance, providing feedbacks on them and arranging regular teachers’ meeting to discuss individual teachers’ problems and possible solutions as performance management. From this finding it can be said that head teachers need proper understanding of the concept of performance management first to manage performance effectively

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Introduction

Performance management is a complex, difficult and time-consuming process which facilitates people management by bringing together a lot of components [1]. It is a continuous process which implies that improving employees’ performance and helping them to develop is the main purpose of the management [2]. This is true in the field of education as well. Performance management is a crucial concept for the success of an educational institution and understanding performance management clearly could help educators in different aspects [3]. That is why performance management should be given much importance in the context of education

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