Leadership in education : organizational theory for the practitioner /

Marion, Russ,

Leadership in education : organizational theory for the practitioner / [print] Russ Marion. - Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, (c)2005. - xx, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Originally published: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 2002.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Roots of modern organizational theory -- Managing tasks -- Supervising people -- Tasks versus people -- Motivation and communication in open systems -- Prescriptions for leadership -- Conflict -- Decision making, learning, and loose coupling -- Evolution of organizational species : schools as professional bureaucracies -- Schools as cultures -- Morality and organizational control -- Pressures that shape organizations -- Complexity : encouraging innovation and building fitness -- Changing educational organizations.



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Educational leadership.
School management and organization.
Organizational sociology.

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