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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The present study explores the relation between distributed leadership and teachers' organizational commitment. Semi-structured interviews with teachers and school leaders of secondary schools were conducted. A comparative analysis of four schools with high and four schools with low committed teachers was carried out. Findings revealed differences…
Descriptors: Interviews, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Qualitative Research
Coggshall, Jane G.; Ott, Amber – Public Agenda, 2010
As a new decade dawns, teachers stand at the center of a policy vortex. They serve as the primary focus of one of the Obama administration's four pillars of educational reform--effective teachers and leaders. Educational reformers of all stripes have focused tremendous energy on thinking of ways to identify effective teachers and in turn recruit,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Success, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Policy
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Scribner, Jay Paredes; Sawyer, R. Keith; Watson, Sheldon T.; Myers, Vicki L. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: This article explores distributed leadership as it relates to two teacher teams in one public secondary school. Both situational and social aspects of distributed leadership are foci of investigation. Methods: The qualitative study used constant comparative analysis and discourse analysis to explore leadership as a distributed phenomenon.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Demography, Discourse Analysis
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Horn, Robert N.; Jerome, Robert T. – Academe, 1996
Despite ambiguous results of corporate restructuring efforts, higher education has adopted many of the methods used in hostile corporate takeovers and leveraged buyouts, affecting "ownership" of the educational process by faculty and the relationship between faculty and administration. A common element in successful restructuring is the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Business Administration, Change Strategies, College Administration
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Ramo, Keetjie – Academe, 1997
Examines three assumptions that underlie the argument that shared governance must be reformed, and based on the professional literature and experience, counters them. The assumptions are that the bureaucracy appropriate for industry is appropriate for a higher education institution, democratic decision making undermines effective college and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
Charters, W. W., Jr. – 1975
This conceptual expression of "task interdependence," or role coupling, derived from research of elementary teachers in self-contained schools and team teaching schools, recommends that organizational theory provide clear concepts and measures to capture significant variations among schools. Research, measuring the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concurrent Validity, Educational Theories, Elementary Education