School-Based Management: Organizing for High Performance (Jossey-Bass Education) - Hardcover

Mohrman, Susan Albers; Wohlstetter, Priscilla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787900354 ISBN 13: 9780787900359

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

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

?Joseph Murphy, professor and chair, department of educationalleadership, Vanderbilt University

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This book examines the school-based management strategies that hold the most promise for increasing organizational effectiveness.School-based management (SBM) has gained popularity as a method for local school participants--educators, parents, students, and the community at large--to improve their schools. Yet there is little empirical evidence supporting a link between SBM and improved performance. Why have results been so disappointing? Can they be improved--or is the theory itself flawed?This book examines the SBM strategies that hold the most promise for increasing organizational effectiveness. Basing their approach on the pioneering ``high-involvement'' model, the authors reveal the need to go beyond thinking about SBM as a simple transfer of power and to view it as a change in organizational design. Successful SBM depends upon the development of a shared understanding of a new way of operating. The challenge is to redesign an organization that enables educators to engage in the extensive learning required to adopt new approaches to teaching and learning; involves them in the continuous improvement of performance; and promotes the involvement and responsiveness of the school to the diverse needs of the community.

From the Back Cover:

"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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0787900354
• ISBN 13: 9780787900359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332