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From Structural Dilemmas to Institutional Imperatives: A Descriptive Theory of the School as an Institution and of School Organizations
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Berg, Gunnar – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2007
This study outlines a descriptive theory that seeks to grasp the complexity of the school as a state and societal institution as well as single schools as organizations. A significant characteristic of this complexity is the ambiguity of the missions and goals--the outer boundaries--of the school-institution. The more institutional ambiguity that…
Descriptors: School Organization, Organizational Theories, Organizational Effectiveness, Institutional Mission
Research Into the School as an Organization. III: Organizational Development in Schools or Developing the School as an Organization.
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Wallin, Erik; Berg, Gunnar – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1983
Distinguishes between developmental work to bring about change according to a specific organizational theory or organizational development in schools and developmental work based on a rationalistic view of school as an organization or developing schools as organizations. Notes that only the latter can foster real school development. (SB)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Development
Research Into the School As An Organization. II: The School As A Complex Organization.
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Berg, Gunnar; Wallin, Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Examines development of general organization theory, proposes an overall organization model for analysing the school, distinguishes between the school as an institution and the school as an organization, and outlines a set of conceptual tools believed to describe and analyse the school as an organization. Provides practical applications for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Institutions
Schools and the Neo-Rationalist Model of Organizations. A Report from the SIAu, SABO and PeO Projects. Uppsala Reports on Education 17.
Berg, Gunnar – 1983
Educational organizations, this paper asserts, are best described using a neorationalist model, which analyzes organizations as social instruments, acknowledges structural conflict, and views individuals as active participants. The paper examines traditional and modern rationalist organization theories and contrasts these with systems theory; it…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
The School in an Organizational Perspective. Uppsala Reports on Education 10.
Berg, Gunnar; Wallin, Erik – 1981
This paper attempts to develop a conceptual framework for describing the school as an organization. In the first chapter, after a review of organizational theory and research on the school, it is concluded that the school organization as a whole can be described in terms of bureaucracy and professionalism. In the second chapter, two basic…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Compulsory Education, Conflict
OD in North American Schools: A Scandinavian View, with Comments by Matthew Miles and Michael Fullan. Uppsala Reports on Education, No. 20.
Berg, Gunnar – 1984
This report discusses the structural conditions under which organizational development (OD), as employed in the school systems of the United States and Canada, is more or less applicable to schools. The first section (chapters 1-6) reviews papers and books, concerning either OD in general or the ways in which the ideas of OD have been used in the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Environment