The paper concentrates on work of two basic school (6-15) headteachers. What we regard as the dominant feature of their activities are the efforts to manage quality in school. The term "guality management" is used to refer to a set of activities leading either to maintaining the existing standard of school operation (provided it is perceived as good), or to change what is regarded as malfunctioning - towards a more suitable state of affairs. We relied on two relational frameworks: the content-level definition of school quality management and the concept of individual leadership. The two frameworks will be used to analyse the actions of two headteachers, to compare them against each and to relate the resulting information to the wider context of school management in contemoprary Czech society.