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The Nature and Effects of Transformational School Leadership: A Meta-Analytic Review of Unpublished Research
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Leithwood, Kenneth; Sun, Jingping – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Background: Using meta-analytic review techniques, this study synthesized the results of 79 unpublished studies about the nature of transformational school leadership (TSL) and its impact on the school organization, teachers, and students. This corpus of research associates TSL with 11 specific leadership practices. These practices, as a whole,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Meta Analysis
Making Sense of Distributed Leadership: Exploring the Multiple Usages of the Concept in the Field
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Mayrowetz, David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Background: The term "distributed leadership" is now widely used among scholars and practitioners in the field of educational leadership. Major actors in the nonprofit sector promote and financially support the development of distributed leadership. Unfortunately, there is confusion and ambiguity about what "distributed leadership" means, and…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Instructional Leadership, Educational Improvement, Leadership Responsibility
Hodgkinson on Ethics and the Philosophy of Administration.
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Evers, Colin W. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1985
Offers a systematic critical response to the values-oriented, nonpositivist conception of administration and philosophy of administration recently advanced by Christopher Hodgkinson. Argues that Hodgkinson's theory is much closer to the positivism espoused by H. A. Simon. An alternative, nonpositivist basis for values in administrative theory is…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Beliefs, Elementary Secondary Education
Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Communications: A Review of Selected Contributions.
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Lysaught, Jerome P. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
Surveys communications theory and discusses its application to educational organizations. Topics examined include definitions of communication, the evolution of communication models, concepts of language and semantics, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication. Finally, analytic techniques and conceptual frameworks are…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Educational Administration
A Computer-Based Simulation Model for the Feedback and Analysis of the Administrative In-Basket Exercise
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Boardman, Gerald R. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1975
Described is a computer-based simulation model for maximizing both the feedback of an administrative "in-basket" simulation exercise and the analysis of the results. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Man Machine Systems
Two Images of Schools as Organizations: A Refinement and Elaboration.
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Herriott, Robert E.; Firestone, William A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
The finding reported previously in this journal (EJ 265 763), that elementary schools conform more to the image of the rational bureaucracy while secondary schools fit that of the anarchy or loosely coupled system, is reinforced and extended using a large sample, more reliable measures, and more elaborate techniques. (Author)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Centralization, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
A Perspective on Organizational Cultures and Organizational Belief Structure.
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Conway, James A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1985
School organizations need to make changes in the organizational culture of schools in order to achieve excellence. An analogy between cognitive systems and organizational belief systems helps to explain the ways that beliefs and values are structured in school organizations. (MLF)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Structures, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education