School Based Management

ISBN-13: 9780787900359 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 332 str.

Susan Albers Mohrman; Priscilla Wohlstetter

Opis

Mohrman and Wohlstetter have written the most important volume on school-based management to date... a significant contribution to the school reform literature.


?Joseph Murphy, professor and chair, department of educational leadership, Vanderbilt University

Spis treści

Foreword
1. Introduction: Improving School Performance(Susan Albers Mohrman, Priscilla Wohlstetter)
Part One: School–Based Management and High Performance
2. High–Involvement Management in the Private Sector(Susan Albers Mohrman)
3. School–Based Management: An Overview(Rodney T. Ogawa, Paula A. White)
4. Models of High Performance Schools(Priscilla Wohlstetter, Roxane Smyer)
5. The Role of Teachers in School Reform(Susan Moore Johnson, Katherine C. Boles)
6. Education by Charter, Priscilla Wohlstetter
7. Establishing the Conditions for High Performance(Priscilla Wohlstetter, Susan Albers Mohrman)
Part Two: Creating High Performance
8. Making the Transition to High–Performance Management(Susan Albers Mohrman)
9. Change in Schools: Lessons from the Literature(David D. Marsh)
10. Understanding and Managing the Change Process(Susan Albers Mohrman, Priscilla Wohlstetter)
11. Conclusion: New Directions for School–Based Management(Priscilla Wohlstetter, Susan Albers Mohrman)

O autorze

SUSAN ALBERS MOHRMAN is Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern California. PRISCILLA WOHLSTETTER is associate professor of politics and policy in the School of Education at the University of Southern California. She also serves as a senior research fellow with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and directs CPRE′s Study of School–Based Management, upon which this book is based.

Blurb

"Mohrman and Wohlstetter have written the most important volume on school–based management to date... a significant contribution to the school reform literature." ––Joseph Murphy, professor and chair, department of educational leadership, Vanderbilt UniversityThis book examines the school–based management strategies that hold the most promise for increasing organizational effectiveness.