Principals and the empowerment of educators as an aspect of strategic leadership

M.Ed.The general aim of the research project is to: develop a management-training programme for principals in respect of strategic leadership_ In order to accomplish the above general aim, the following serve as specific aims for this particular mini-dissertation namely to: investigate which aspects are involved in the empowerment of educators .. design guidelines so that principals can acquire the management skills necessary to empower educators; test the programme using a pre-test post-test experimental design; and provide guidelines as to how principals can empower educators in school