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Organizational Behavior In Education: Leadership And School Reform

Organizational Behavior In Education: Leadership And School Reform

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Table of Content

ISLLC Functions By Chapter

CHAPTER 1: In Search of a Vision

Critical Incident: The Vision For South Shore High School

ASSUMPTIONS, BELIEFS, BEHAVIORS

THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

IMPACT OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Psychoanalytic Psychology
Sociological and Psychological Points of View

Cognitive Psychology

Social Psychology

Field Theory of Behavior

SCHOOLS AS EDUCATIVE ORGANIZATIONS

Organizational Theory

Theory Defined and Described

Two Major Perspectives on Educational Organizations

Bureaucratic Theory

Human Resources Development Theory

Theory X and Theory Y

THE RELEVANCE TO SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TODAY

VISION AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2001

RESEARCH IN EDUCATION

The Framingham Heart Study

The Tennessee STAR Study

Research and NCLB

LEADERSHIP AS COACHING

Coaching as a Method of Teaching

CONCLUSION

REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES

SUGGESTED READING



CHAPTER 2: Guiding Concepts of Practice

Critical Incident: Controversy at the Principals’ Meeting

TWO PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF CONFLICT

The “Great Debate”: Traditional versus Progressive Education

The Beginnings of the Great Educational Debate

The Backlash of the 1950s

The Neoprogressives Emerge in the 1960s

THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE ON SCHOOLING

A PARADIGM SHIFT IN EDUCATION

A Passion for Equality

The Traditional Paradigm of Intelligence

A New Paradigm of Intelligence or the Lake Wobegon Syndrome?

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THEORY

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory (MIT)

Perkins’s Learnable Intelligence Theory

Smart Schools

Emotional Intelligence

Sustainability: The Debate Continues

Sustainability

THEORY OF ACTION

THEORY OF PRACTICE

THE GAME PLAN: A COACHING METAPHOR

CONCLUSION

REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES

SUGGESTED READING



CHAPTER 3: Mainstreams of Organizational Thought

Critical Incident --A Philosophical Disagreement on Administration

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Organization and Behavior

Why Study Organizational Behavior?

IMPACT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Frederick W. Taylor and Scientific Management

The Beginning of Modern Organizational Theory

Emergence of Bureaucratic Organizational Theory

THE RISE OF CLASSICAL ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY

Scientific Management versus Classical Organizational Theory

Organizational Concepts of Classical Theory

Classical and Neoclassical Administrative Concepts

THE HUMAN RELATIONS MOVEMENT

The Western Electric Studies

Sociometry

Behavior Patterns in Groups

Leadership as a Group Function

The Paradox of Organizational Structure

THE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY MOVEMENT

Human Relations and Organizational Behavior

CONCLUSION

REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES

SUGGESTED READING



CHAPTER 4: Organizational Theory

Critical Incident: A Tale of Two Principals

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND PEOPLE

General Systems Theory

Social Systems Theory

A Contextual Approach

ROLE THEORY

Role Conflict

Role Ambiguity

Role Set

Functional Roles in the Group

Role Related to Social Systems Theory

Equilibrium

Homeostasis

Feedback

SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS THEORY

CONTINGENCY THEORY

Rational Planning Models
Open System Related to Contingency Theory
Response to Technological Change
Interaction with the External Environment
Contingency Theory and Organizational Behavior in Schools

CONCLUSION

REFL

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