Changes within education are nowdays orientated towards implementing decentralised management in the work schools. The reasons for that are numerous and lie in the processes of economic and financial globalisation and progress of informatic and communication tehnology that created the requirements for taking over management responsibilities in education by schools and local communities. The principals responsibility in school management is constantly growing, areas of his own activity are divided into administrative- tehnical and developmental- pedagogic categories trough wich he promotes quality and implementation of different decentralisation forms wich enable him to distribute authority to other employees. In order to apply the settings of decentralised management the principal has to know the tenets of planning, organization, leadership, human resources management and evaluation of results. Primary objectives of this kind of work are creation of a common mission and vision that will be acceptable to principals, school employees, parents, students and other members of the local community, establishing cooperation with employees trough allocation of responsibilites, conducting joint planning of future activities, improving the overall quality of work in order to meet the needs of the end user i.e. students and management based on the tenets of democracy. Emphasis was also placed on the possession of communication skills and the demand for lifetime learning due to the frequent progress of educational methods that involve innovation and strenghtening the role of school principals.