Role of Administrator:
The administrator’s role in educational institution has to be a guiding and counseling to
the teaching staff and students under his charge. A great deal o f h is job performance and activity
status depends upon his or her administration. He has to perform several innovative, creative,
functional works. He must interact, motivate, inspire his subordinators and guide them for better
job performance. H e has big responsibilities to perform many duties namely the most important
o f all is academic administrative, co-curricular activities, close co-ordination and understanding
between different departments and units of the institution is of paramount significance.
The administrator o f the higher education is responsible for affecting much co-ordination.
Administration and management - two separate functions: But American and British Conceptions are Different
According to American school of thought management thinkers, such as Seldom, Lead Schulz and Spriengel, the term administration is broader than management. Administration determines the specific goals and lays down the broad areas within which goals have to be achieved. Administration is a policy- making function; On the other hand, management involves implementing the broad policies laid down by administration. Administrators do the thinking while manager’s act; administration is a top- level activity while management is a lower level function.
British management thinkers such as Brench, Fayol and Kimball asserts that management is a broader concept as compared to administration. Administration handles the problems arising out of execution of policies laid down by management. According to them, management is the rule making and rule enforcing activity. It is a much more comprehensive and an all-encompassing term of which administration is a part of management.
A n Administration is regarded as the process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group in effort towards goal achievement in a given situation.
Academic Administration: Its Abuses and Uses
Logan Wilson
Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors (1915-1955)
Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors (1915-1955)
Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1955), pp. 684-692 (9 pages)
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University Administrator – Got What It Takes?
by Neil Harris
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