... industries, which not only create challenges for administrators but also for colleagues who find themselves in conflict with one another. This chapter chronicles a composite scenario describing a conflict between two scholars, Carrie and Paul. Weick's sensemaking framework and Argyris and Schön's...

...Michael F. DiPaola; Wayne K. Hoy Meeting the demands for increased effectiveness of schools cannot occur without systemic change. But the natural reaction to change is typically tension, resistance, and conflict. This analysis distinguishes between constructive and destructive conflict. First...

...Liam F. Heaney Discusses three important aspects of school management, namely, managing conflict, coping with pressure, and managing time. These issues are very relevant in the present climate of rapid educational development and change. Aims to consider a number of practical approaches...

...Robert C. Newhouse; Margery Neely In educational institutions, conflict is inevitable. Conflict resolution is needed when incompatible activities occur. Diametrically opposed views of conflict assume either that conflict is usually destructive or that conflict can be a basis for creative outcomes...

...J.A. Brennan The emotional aspect of headship caused not by the decision‐making process itself but by the pressures and conflicts resulting from a conscientious desire to run a stable, participative school is examined. The need to give balanced judgements causes emotional stress on the head who can...