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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Detailed Contents
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Leading Organizations: Evolving Perspectives
• Case Study 1.1: Watching the Parade through a Knothole in a Fence or Seeing the Entire Parade from the Grandstand
• Overview: Why Consider an Organizational Perspective on Leadership?
• Conceptual Tools to Understand Leadership in Organizations
• Developing Mental Models
• Developing a Theory of Practice
• A Conceptual Lens for Understanding Organizational Leadership
• Evolving Perspectives on Leadership and Organizations
• Developing Systems Thinking
• The Industrial Era and the Knowledge Era
• Entity and Collectivist Theories of Leadership
• Today’s Principals and Organizational Leadership
• The Evolving Role of the American School Principal
• 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders
• Implications For Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 2 Leadership Theory: Managing Tasks and People (late Nineteenth to late Twentieth Centuries)
• Case Study 2.1: An Abrupt Culture Change
• Overview: Early to Modern Views of Leading Organizations
• Traditional (Classical) Organizational Theory
• Modern (Twentieth Century) Organizational Theory: Leading People and Tasks
• Mary Parker Follett: A Holistic View of Organizations
• Elton Mayo: The Hawthorne Studies and Human Relations
• Chester Barnard: Organizational Management Theory
• Herbert A. Simon: Administrative Behavior Theory
• Leadership: Trait, Behavior, and Situational Theories
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 3 Contemporary Theories: Leadership as a Shared Process
• Case Study 3.1: What Has Happened Here?!
• Overview: Leadership as a Social and Relational Process
• New Paradigms for Understanding Organizations
• The Getzels-Guba Model of Organization
• Transactional and Transformational Leadership Theories
• Distributed Leadership
• Leader–Member Exchange Theory (LMX)
• Complexity Leadership Theory
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 4 Motivating People to Accomplish Organizational Goals
• Case Study 4.1: A Case of Bait and Switch?
• Overview: Linking Employee Needs, Beliefs, Goals, and Performance
• Defining Motivation
• Motivation and Worker Psychology: Needs
• Motivation and Worker Psychology: Beliefs
• Motivation and Worker Psychology: Goals
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 5 Leading Organizational Change/Organizational Learning
• Case Study 5.1: Too Many Suspensions. Why?
• Overview: Why Change and Why is it Difficult?
• Twentieth Century Views: Change as Organizational Learning
• Leading Learning and Change Within an Organizational Culture
• Complexity Theory, Organizational Learning, and Change
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 6 Managing Conflict for Organizational Effectiveness
• Case Study 6.1: Conflicting Stories
• Overview: Well-Managed Conflict as a Key to Organizational Effectiveness
• Understanding Organizational Conflict
• Evolving Views on Organizational Conflict
• Conflict Theory
• Conflict and Organizational Performance
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 7 Communication in Organizations
• Case Study 7.1: What Did You Say?
• Overview: Communication Skills can Facilitate—or Undo—Leadership Effectiveness
• Defining Communication in Organizations
• Key Aspects of Communication in Organizations
• Communication Theories
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 8 Building the Organization’s Capacity
• Case Study 8.1: PLCs, Sure! (Psst!—What’s a PLC?)
• Overview: Leadership as Capacity Building
• Defining Organizational Capacity
• Building Organizational Capacity
• Building Teachers’ Leadership Capacity
• Identifying Teacher Leaders
• Conditions Needed to Build School Capacity
• Theories of Capacity Building
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 9 Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Case Study 9.1: Problem Solving Components in Altavista Schools
• Overview: Decision Making in Organizations
• Types of Problems in Schools
• Components of Problem Solving
• Rationality and Decision Making
• Sensemaking and Decision Making
• Sensemaking Processes
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 10 Ethical Decision Making in Organizations
• Case Study 10.1: Just a Small Favor to Ask
• Overview: Why the Attention to Ethical Decision Making?
• The Basic Ethical Decision-Making Process
• Individual Factors in Ethical Decision Making in Organizations
• Environmental/Contextual Factors in Ethical Decision Making
• Sensemaking: Moral Intuition Models of Ethical Decision Making
• The Dual Process Approach
• Developing Ethical Expertise at Work
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• 11 Allocating Educational Resources
• Case Study 11.1: It Was the Worst of Times. It was a Dickens of a Time
• Overview: Enacting Educational Values
• Allocating Educational Resources
• Evolving Perspectives on Funding Schools for Learning
• Research on Money and Student Achievement
• Efficiency in Securing and Allocating Educational Resources
• Resource Dependence Theory and Resource Allocation
• Resource Dependence Theory and Schools
• Research and Criticism
• Implications for Educational Leaders
• Notes
• Index