Analysis of the school principal's activities in the field of document management in connection with the development of digitization
Abstract
The rapid development of information and communication technologies in recent years has also brought changes to schools, to which they have had to adapt. Gradually, it was necessary to start education in areas that fall within the professional competencies of school principals.
These include, but are not limited to, school management in accordance with applicable law, for example regarding professional document management. In small schools, where the principal has no one to delegate the activities to, and has to forge them himself, the acquisition of these competencies is all the more important than in schools where the agenda is performed by a subordinate employee.
It is a vocational training within the framework of lifelong learning, which enables the acquisition of skills and competences that respond to the rapidly changing needs of society. The paper focuses on changes in school management in connection with digitization, which has increased the number of activities, especially of an administrative nature, focused on the professional management of documents that the principal must perform.
All schools, regardless of the founder, became public authorities in 2017, and therefore have a data box established by law, which they must primarily use to communicate with all users. This expanded the agenda of document management at the school to include documents in electronic form delivered by a data box.
The aim of the paper is to analyze the activities of the school principal in the field of file service and the resulting problems on the basis of a survey that focused on the current state of competencies in the field of professional document management in schools, especially in connection with digitization. Research question: How have schools adapted to changes in professional document management in connection with the development of digitization? The results show a more demanding transition of schools to work with electronic documents, except for the paper ones, which began to be delivered to schools and sent from schools with the establishment of a data box of a public authority to all schools in 2017.