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Leadership and staff retention: Organisational structures (part 2)

Recruitment & Retention Whole-school issues Senior leadership Teaching staff
Our five-part series on the links between leadership approaches and staff retention and recruitment continues. In part two, Matt Bromley considers the most common organisational structures and how they link to staff satisfaction, motivation and retention

In part one of this series, I summarised the findings of a report by the Centre for High Performance (October 2016) on what it takes to be a successful school leader, which concluded we were appointing, recognising and rewarding the wrong kind of leader.

The education system in England, the report found, favoured short-term thinking – quick fixes rather than sustainable improvements.

There were, broadly speaking, five types of school leader, the report said. These were as follows:

The architect proved (according to the research) to be the most effective leader. Indeed, architects were the only leaders which the researchers found to have improved exam results over the long-term.

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