STRATEGIES FOR EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT BY SCHOOL MANAGERS AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

Changes within education process include improvement of general organization of school's educational practice. Main focus gets redirected from an individual to a conception change, from evaluation of pupil's achievements on to evaluation of school's total results; from the teachers, as subjects of the change, on to school managers, as leaders and bearers of development change. Research has been conducted in southern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzegovina region), using the sample of 240 examinees (232 teachers and 8 school managers), in order to determine the leading role of a school manager. The results obtained on the basis of standardized instruments show that school managers show flexibility in their work with teachers, and that teachers are involved in the school management process, but are not sufficiently involved in strategic planning and monitoring of school work results. Strategic managers need to apply strategy which they can implement within the organization and that way they show long-term planning, whilst taking into consideration all the circumstances of school work.