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Lindberg, Erik – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The Anglo-Saxon countries have implemented Management by Objectives (MBO) complemented with school-based management (SBM) fairly rapidly. Although these countries are considered something of a benchmark of stability, research on principals reveals that they experience high levels of stress and that this is associated with poorer job performance.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Job Performance, School Based Management
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Peck, Craig; Reitzug, Ulrich C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Purpose: This article examines the history of three management concepts that originated in the business sector and progressed to the K-12 education sector. Framework: We propose a new conceptual model intended to help illuminate how ideas and strategies originally created for business leadership gain influence in the realm of K-12 school…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Fundamental Concepts, Total Quality Management, Management by Objectives
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Berkey, Timothy; Dow, Elizabeth – Journal of Staff Development, 2008
The odds were stacked against the new elementary school from the beginning. In its favor, the school was a beautiful building with an established principal. Beyond that, anyone would predict that the first year would be tough. The staff consisted of new teachers and transfers from across the district. The students were reassigned from two…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Management by Objectives, Change Strategies, Educational Change