Organizational Behavior for School Leadership

Description

Organizational Behavior for School Leadership provides a theoretical and practical framework to help emerging leaders build the mental models they need to be effective. Presenting traditional, modern, and contemporary perspectives, each chapter offers opportunities for readers to reflect on the ideas and apply their leadership perspective and skills to their own work settings. In this way, this important book helps graduate students in educational leadership understand organizational situations and circumstances, an essential step in making appropriate decisions about people, school operations, and the community that generate improved student and teacher outcomes.

Key Features

• Guiding questions—chapter openers to initiate student thinking.
• Case studies and companion rubrics—engage students in applying content to real-life school scenarios with guiding rubrics to help think through answers.
• Reflections and relevance—interactive learning activities, simulations, and graphic assignments deepen readers’ understanding.
• PSEL Standards—each chapter aligns with the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders.
• Companion website—includes case studies and rubrics, supplementary materials, additional readings, and PowerPoint slides for instructors.

Table of Contents

1. About the Authors
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgements
4. Chapter 1: Leading Organizations: Evolving Perspectives
5. Chapter 2: Leadership Theory: Managing Tasks and People (late Nineteenth to late Twentieth Centuries)
6. Chapter 3: Contemporary Theories: Leadership as a Shared Process
7. Chapter 4: Motivating People to Accomplish Organizational Goals
8. Chapter 5: Leading Organizational Change/Organizational Learning
9. Chapter 6: Managing Conflict for Organizational Effectiveness
10. Chapter 7: Communication in Organizations
11. Chapter 8: Building the Organization’s Capacity
12. Chapter 9: Problem Solving and Decision Making
13. Chapter 10: Ethical Decision Making in Organizations
14. Chapter 11: Allocating Educational Resources

Author Description

Leslie S. Kaplan is a retired school administrator, a full-time education writer, and an Adjunct Research Professor at Old Dominion University, USA.

William A. Owings is Professor of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University, USA.