... change. Specifically, the paper outlines the dynamic of effective teams at times of school improvement. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents the concept of teams, elaborates on their central function as a “coupling mechanism,” and describes the reciprocal relations between teams and school...

..., 2013a, b) of the published literature drawn from both international and Chinese language journals. For English literature, we used the keyword “China” combined with a second keyword from either “education reform” or “school change” and a third keyword from either “school principal” or “educational...

... and Richardson, 1994 ; Einarsen et al., 1994 ; Leymann, 1996). Hong Kong Secondary schools Change management Teachers Workplace aggression Disengagement Pedagogical reform School change When this is translated into an educational setting, a change, for example, from the traditional...