Educational Administration and Organizational Behavior

by Hanson, E. Mark

• ISBN13: 9780205188819
• ISBN10: 0205188818
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This text makes a practical link between social science theory and the practice of leading educational systems. The key processes of communication, leadership. motivation, and organization change are analyzed in terms of how they influence educational systems.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Organizational Behavior in Schools: An Overview	1	(12)
Purpose and Organization of this Book	2	(2)
Conceptual Frameworks and School Organization	4	(5)
Obscured Situations and Limited Perspectives	9	(1)
Conclusion	9	(1)
An Ancient Table	10	(3)
The School as a Bureaucratic Organization	13	(30)
Bureaucratic Administration	16	(2)
The Gospel of Scientific Management	18	(3)
Scientific Management and the School	21	(3)
The Bureaucratization of Education in America	24	(3)
The Limits to Rationality	27	(1)
Unanticipated Consequences of the Bureaucratic Model	28	(27)
Do Organization and Administration Make a Difference?	55
Conclusion	37	(1)
The New Principal	37	(6)
Schools as Sociopolitical Systems	43	(34)
Informal Groups in Organizations	45	(5)
The Social System	50	(8)
Organizational Culture	58	(4)
Governance and Decision Making	62	(4)
The School as a Collection of Coalitions	66	(2)
Governing from the Lowerarchy	68	(2)
A Contrast of Basic Assumptions	70	(2)
Conclusion	72	(5)
The Superintendent's on My Back	77	(1)
The Professional-Bureaucratic Interface: A Case Study	77	(26)
The Interacting Spheres Model	78	(3)
Spheres of Influence	81	(1)
Structural and Cultural Linkages	82	(1)
Autonomy	83	(4)
Decision-Making Categories	87	(1)
Subcoalitions within Spheres of Influence	87	(4)
Weak Power of the Principalship	91	(2)
The Negotiated Offer	93	(1)
Behavioral Management across Spheres	94	(2)
Defending the Spheres	96	(2)
Propositions	98	(1)
Conclusion	99	(4)
Open System Theory and Schools	103	(30)
The Concept of System	107	(1)
Open System Theory	108	(1)
Cycles of Events	109	(1)
Cycles of Events in the School	110	(3)
A Balance-of-Systems Concept	113	(3)
Environmental Fragmentation	116	(2)
The Management Information System	118	(3)
Open and Closed Systems	121	(2)
Organizational Equilibrium	123	(1)
The Problem-Solving Cycle	124	(4)
A Contrast of Basic Assumptions	128	(1)
Conclusion	128	(5)
Contingency Theory	133	(20)
Under Conditions of Uncertainty	134	(1)
The Context of Contingency Theory	135	(3)
Organizational Structure and the Environment	138	(4)
Problem Solving in Organized Anarchies	142	(4)
Managerial Work Behavior	146	(1)
The Manager's Work Roles	147	(2)
Conclusion	149	(4)
Organizational Leadership and the School Administrator	153	(40)
The Leadership Role	154	(5)
Leadership in Sociopolitical Group	159	(3)
Leadership and Gender	162	(1)
Leadership Styles	163	(4)
Contingency Theory of Leadership	167	(6)
Cognitive Resource Theory	173	(2)
Path-Goal Theory of Leadership: A Contingency Theory	175	(3)
The Goose Theory of Leadership	178	(1)
Toward a Contingency Theory of Educational Leadership	178	(1)
Open System Leadership Theory	179	(1)
Transformational Leadership Theory	180	(1)
Leadership Training	181	(3)
Leadership Training in Open System	184	(1)
Conclusion	185	(8)
Motivation and Management	193	(28)
The Basis of Motivation	193	(2)
Content Theories of Motivation	195	(12)
Process Theories of Motivation	207	(7)
Conclusion	214	(1)
A Burnout Case	215	(6)
Organizational Communication	221	(16)
S-M-C-R Communication Model	222	(1)
Classical Theory and Communication	222	(1)
The Human Relations School and Communication	223	(1)
Open System Theory and Communication	224	(1)
Hierarchical Settings	224	(5)
Barriers to Communication	229	(2)
Nonverbal Communication	231	(1)
Communication Analysis	232	(2)
Conclusion	234	(3)
Educational Marketing and the Public Schools	237	(22)
Education Marketing and How It Differs from Public Relations	238	(1)
Why Apply Marketing Techniques to Schools?	239	(4)
Market Forces that Create Bridges or Barriers	243	(2)
How Would ``Choice'' Change Current Market Forces?	245	(1)
How Marketers Contact Segments of the Community	246	(2)
Strategic Marketing Plans	248	(6)
Conclusion	254	(5)
Conflict and Stress in Education	259	(22)
Levels and Sources of Conflict	261	(3)
Structure and Process Conflict Models	264	(2)
Stress and Performance	266	(2)
Conflict Analysis	268	(1)
Conflict Management	269	(3)
Stress Management	272	(2)
A Note of Caution	274	(2)
Conclusion	276	(1)
We Are Not Amused	277	(4)
Educational Change	281	(46)
Clarification of Terms	283	(1)
Types of Change	283	(3)
The Organizational Environment: The Target of Change	286	(4)
Resistance to Change at the Organizational Level	290	(6)
Resistnce to Change at the Individual Level	296	(5)
Planned Change	301	(6)
The Change Agent	307	(5)
Organizational Development	312	(4)
School Culture and Situational Conditions of Change	316	(2)
Three perspectives toward Planned Change	318	(3)
Conclusion	321	(1)
The Case o the Dusty Computers	321	(6)
Educational Management in Developing Countries	327	(18)
Bangladesh: A Quick Look	327	(1)
The Context of Education in the Third World	328	(2)
Foreign Aid and Human Development Assistance	330	(1)
Education and Development	331	(2)
Comparative indicators and Educational Development	333	(2)
Government Structures and Educational Policy	335	(1)
Governance Frameworks: Concept and Theory	335	(2)
Theory versus Practice	337	(3)
Conclusion	340	(5)
Subject Index	345	(6)
Name Index	351