Organizational Behavior in Education: Instructional Leadership and School Reform

Abstract

All chapters open with Learning Objectives, Outline, and About this Chapter and conclude with Conclusion, Working on Your Game Plan, Suggested Reading, and Notes. Preface. Prospective. 1.Toward a Theory of Practice. Two Principal Sources of Conflict. The Contemporary Debate on Schooling. Ways of Understanding Organizations. Theory of Action. Theory of Practice. The Game Plan: A Coaching Metaphor. 2.Mainstreams of Organizational Thought. What Is Organizational Behavior? Defining Organizational Behavior. Public Administration as a Beginning. Impact of the Industrial Revolution. The Rise of Classical Organizational Theory. The Human Relations Movement. The Organizational Theory Movement. 3.Organizational Theory in the Modern Period. Organizational Theory. Two Major Perspectives on Educational Organizations. Theory X and Theory Y. Organizational Structure and People. General Systems Theory. Social Systems Theory. Role Theory. Role Related to Social Systems Theory. Sociotechnical Systems Theory. Contingency Theory. 4.The Human Dimension of Organization. Building Human Capital. Nontheoretical Influences on Organizational Thought. The School Reform Movement. Turmoil in School Reform. 5.Growth-Enhancing Environments in Educational Organizations. Human Resources Development. How Organizational Climate Is Created. Relationship between Organizational Culture and Organizational Effectiveness. Describing and Assessing Organizational Climate in Schools. Four Management Systems. 6.Organizational Change. School Reform and Change. The Tradition of Change in American Education. Empirical-Rational Strategies of Change. Power-Coercive Strategies of Change. A Third Strategy: Organizational Self-Renewal. Research on the Effectiveness of OD. W. Edwards Deming and Total Quality Management (TQM). 7.Leadership. The Power of Leaders. Two-Factor Leadership Abandoned. Leadership as a Relationship with Followers. Transforming Leadership. Manipulation and Empowerment. Leadership and Management. A Pragmatic Guide to Leader Behavior. Leadership and la Difference. 8.Decision Making. Individual versus Organizational Decision Making. Rationality in Decision Making. Limits on Rationality in Decision Making. Theory of Practice. Participative Decision Making. Team Administration. A Paradigm for Decision Making. 9.Conflict in Organizations. The Nature of Conflict in Organizations. The Dynamics of Organizational Conflict. Approaches to Organizational Conflict. A Contingency Approach to Diagnosis of Conflict. 10.Motivation. The Meaning and Patterns of Motivation. The Extrinsic-Intrinsic Debate. Individual and Group Motivation. The Western Electric Studies Revisited. Individual Differences. Human Intelligence. Temperament and Organizational Behavior. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Intrinsic Motivation. Cognitive Views of Motivation. The Humanistic Perspective. Integrating Herzberg's and Maslow's Theories. 11.School Reform. Market-Based School Reform. Standards-Based School Reform. Whole-School Reform. Teacher Education and School Reform. Author Index. Subject Index.

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