Leadership in Education: Organizational Theory for the Practitioner

I. CLOSED SYSTEMS THEORY. 1. The Roots of Modern Organizational Theory. 2. Managing Tasks. 3. Supervising People. 4. Tasks Versus People. II. PRESCRIPTIVE OPEN SYSTEMS THEORY. 5. Motivation and Communication in Open Systems. 6. Prescriptions for Leadership. 7. Conflict. III. ANTI-POSITIVISTIC THEORY. 8. Decision Making, Learning, and Loose Coupling. 9. Evolution of Organizational Species: Schools as Professional Bureaucracies. 10. Schools as Cultures. 11. Morality and Organizational Control. 12. Pressures That Shape Organizations. 13. Complexity: Encouraging Innovation, and Building Fitness. 14. Changing Educational Organizations.