Comments on Bloom
”Management in Schools”
Henrik Jordahl
SNS, 10 June 2015
Management in Swedish nursing homes
0
5
Percent
Procent
10
15
Mean
= 3,45
Medel=3,45
1
2
3
4
Total
managementkvalitet;
från
1
(worst
practice)
till
5 (best
practice)
Total management quality; from 1 (worst practice) to 5 (best
practice)
Source: Angelis & Jordahl, 2014. Att styra och leda äldreomsorg. SNS Förlag.
5
Total management quality by type
of provider
5
4,5
4
3,5
3,78
3,4
3,34
3,29
3
2,5
2
1,5
1
Kommunala
Municipal
Ideella
Nonprofit
Stora företag
Big 5 for-profit
Små företag
Small for-profit
Dispersion of management quality
by type of provider
5
4,5
4
3,5
3
2,5
2
1,5
1
Kommunala
Municipal
Ideella
Nonprofit
Stora
Big
5 företag
for-profit
Små
företag
Small
for-profit
Importance of friskolor
• Early expansion of friskolor in Sweden?
• New schools vs reformed government schools?
• For-profit companies?
Management as a missing link?
• Böhlmark & Lindahl (Economica, 2015)
– ”… an increase in the share of independent school students
improves average short- and long-term outcomes …”
• Böhlmark, Grönqvist & Vlachos (Scandinavian
Journal of Economics, forthcoming)
– ”… individual principals have a substantive impact on …
student outcomes. … it is difficult to determine which
principal characteristics that shapes successful school
management suggesting that possibly innate skills are
central”