Tackling Under-performance in Teachers

Professor Derek Torrington is Professor of Human Resource Management and Dean of Management Studies at UMIST. Jill Earnshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Law at UMIST. Lorrie Marchington is a freelance consultant in adult guidance and education. Eve M.D. Ritchie is a Research Associate at UMIST and acted as principal researcher for the research project into Teacher Capability Procedures.

• 1. The problem of under performance by teachers 2. How capability issues are handled 3. Ill health and capability 4. Key players and their roles 5. Making procedures work 6. Capability procedures and the legal framework 7. Performance management 8. The planning and review meetings 9. Case studies in which capability procedures were used to secure an outcome 10. Case studies in which capability procedures were not used

'I would recommend this book to colleagues at management levels and students on management courses. Having said this, it is important that all school staff are made aware of issues around capability and how it will be dealt with should the issue arise. I would see it as an essential purchase for all schools...' - Kim Beat, Headteacher, Barham Primary School, Middlesex