Organizational Behavior in Education, 11/e gives future and current educational administrators, superintendents, principals, and assistant principals an authoritative, well-established, timely look at organizational behavior and how leaders can create more effective school cultures. It offers the most up-to-date thinking and the most in-depth exploration of organizational leadership as it relates to decision making, organizational change, managing conflict and communications, and motivating self and others to achieve organizational goals. The authors challenge readers to develop and analyze the successful implementation of school reform, while helping them gain a professional understanding of the organizational theory and research that are the bedrock of modern practice. The new Eleventh Edition features updated research and developments in the field; an extensively revised, more systematic and logical presentation of organizational theory and its historical development; discussion of the new ELCC Standards and Elements that apply to program accreditation in Ed Leadership programs; APA format for all references and citations; new presentations of important research in the field; and more.
Synthesizes and correlates research on such aspects of organizational behaviour as organizational culture, leadership, motivation, change, conflict and decision making. Additionally, this edition discusses postmodern thought like pragmatism and critical...
The Eighth Edition of "Organizational Behavior in Education" continues to analyze educational leadership in clear and realistic terms while considering how readers can effectively participate in school reform. ...
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This text emphasizes human resources development as the key to effective administration practice and aims to provide a foundation of theory and knowledge on organizational behaviour for educational administration.
KEY BENEFIT This is the ideal resource for educational leaders who want to review or brush up their knowledge of the concepts of leadership and organizational behavior and how to apply those concepts to their everyday activities.
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Organizational Behavior in Schools
This text makes a practical link between social science theory and the practice of leading educational systems.
The editors maintain that the current debate over school restructuring is essentially a debate over which strategy of organizing will achieve the best results. Organizational theory suggests that there are...
Organizational Behavior in Education