Aspects Related to Management Styles and Manager Types in the Educational Organizations

The way an educational institution is managed is very important, because it has to be functional and efficient. The persons managing the educational institutions (rector, pro-rector, high school principal, deputy directors, secondary school principals) have to be very good managers and to have the ability to successfully transform the human resources (pupils, students), the financial, material and didactic resources, and this is reflected in the school results, the development of pupils and students personality and in the entire instructive–educative process. Both in the management of a classroom and of an institution we noticed the same managerial functions: planning, organization, coordination, decision, evaluation and control. In the present study we made a sociologic experiment to evaluate the main management styles practiced by the managers of several universities and high schools from Timisoara (Romania), and from the analysis of the results we noticed that the authoritarian style from the institutions where it is used is ineffective compared to the institutions where the managers use a democratic style. An effective management involves both native talent and a continuous study, training and experience and one of the qualities of successful managers is flexibility.