within collegial medels budgetary d

within collegial medels budgetary dicisions are likely to be made through a participative process involving many staff and all the main groups, as well as senior staff and governors.This process should lead o weide acceptance or townership of the decisions because it gives so many people the opportunity to take part. In practice, however, the collegial setting may well become the focal point of political activity rather than leading to consensual outcomes. what begins as a collegial process eventually produces political outcomes (bisj. 1986) simkins (1986 p,27) research in secondary schools demonstrates that these political pressures tend to limit the applicability of collegial models in financial management: