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Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Purpose: This study explored a theoretical model that links teachers' perceived uncertainty and teachers' sense of collective efficacy with organizational learning mechanisms (OLMs) in elementary schools. OLMs serve as a mediator construct. Research Design: For testing the primary theoretical model, 801 teachers from 61 elementary schools (33…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Models
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Schechter, Chen – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Purpose: In light of the excessively broad conceptions and nonobservable terms generally characterizing discussions of organizational learning, this study explores the notion of organizational learning in schools through the conceptual framework of organizational learning mechanisms (OLM) and develops a measure of OLM at the elementary school…
Descriptors: Validity, Learning Processes, Organizational Development, Information Processing
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Ramsey, Margaret A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1975
In processing information for decisionmaking, the educational administrator too often relies on subjective experience or on randomly selected facts. The anthropological approach of participant-observation offers a reasonable middle ground for administrators to use in more effectively organizing activities that revolve around decisionmaking.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational Administration
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Ogawa, Rodney T. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
Using Karl Weick's concept of organizing, argues that the information processing systems of administrators and teachers are largely separate. (JW)
Descriptors: Communications, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Processing