Kaplan / Owings Organizational Behavior for School Leadership

Leveraging Your School for Success
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-36430-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 414 Seiten

Organizational Behavior for School Leadership provides a theoretical framework to help emerging leaders build the mental models they need for effective practice. Presenting traditional, modern, and contemporary perspectives, each chapter offers opportunities for readers to reflect on the ideas and apply their leadership perspective and skills to their own work settings. In this way, this important book helps graduate students in educational leadership understand organizational situations and circumstances, an essential step in making appropriate decisions about people, school operations, and the community that generate improved student and teacher outcomes.

Special features include:

- Guiding questions—chapter openers to initiate student thinking.

- Case studies and companion rubrics—engage students in applying content to real-life school scenarios with guiding rubrics to help think through answers.

- Reflections and relevance—interactive learning activities, simulations, and graphic assignments deepen readers' understanding.

- PSEL Standards—each chapter aligns with the 2015 Professional Standards for Education Leaders.

- Companion website—includes case studies and rubrics, supplementary materials, additional readings, and PowerPoint slides for instructors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaplan, Leslie S.

Owings, William A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Authors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Leading Organizations: Evolving Perspectives

Chapter 2: Leadership Theory: Managing Tasks and People (late Nineteenth to late Twentieth Centuries)

Chapter 3: Contemporary Theories: Leadership as a Shared Process

Chapter 4: Motivating People to Accomplish Organizational Goals

Chapter 5: Leading Organizational Change/Organizational Learning

Chapter 6: Managing Conflict for Organizational Effectiveness

Chapter 7: Communication in Organizations

Chapter 8: Building the Organization’s Capacity

Chapter 9: Problem Solving and Decision Making

Chapter 10: Ethical Decision Making in Organizations

Chapter 11: Allocating Educational Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Leslie S. Kaplan is a retired school administrator, a full-time education writer, and an Adjunct Research Professor at Old Dominion University, USA.

William A. Owings is Professor of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University, USA.