Managing Finance and Resources in Education by Coleman Marianne; Anderson Lesley; & Lesley Anderson

Author:Coleman, Marianne; Anderson, Lesley; & Lesley Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 483324
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2004-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Simkins (1989, p. 158) argues that the political model focuses on three variables which are relevant to an analysis of budgetary processes:

1) Differences in values and interests among individuals and groups. Such differences are most likely to result from different discipline groups. It is understandable that members of science or languages departments, for example, disagree about the relative importance of their subjects in the school or college curriculum.

2) The power that individuals and groups can bring to bear upon the decision-making process of the organization. Sources of power include the individual’s formal position in the organization or their level of expertise. The power of groups may be influenced by their ability to mobilize external resources and by their perceived centrality to the aims of the organization. For example, departments hosting core subjects within the English and Welsh National Curriculum are likely to hold more power than those responsible for the less significant foundation subjects.

3) The processes through which power is brought to bear on the decision-making situation. In budgeting, emphasis is likely to be on persuasion through the marshalling of expertise and the control of information, or upon the use of bargaining and exchange strategies to reach acceptable compromises on resource allocation.

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