...Sedat Gümüş; Jiafang Lu; Köksal Banoğlu; Allan David Walker Purpose This study explores how the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational learning varies across schools and examines how school principals’ self-efficacy and their leadership performance, as perceived...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Organizational learning Improvement Organizations School reform Over the past thirty years, there have been numerous federal and state efforts to improve teaching and learning by establishing...

...Jennifer Karnopp; Jeff Walls Purpose Existing conceptualizations of organizational learning focus on processes and structures while also acknowledging a social element, usually framed as bringing people together through formal structures. While much scholarship notes that school culture mediates...

... from the leadership team in one public school district in the Western United States, including perceptions of organizational learning, beliefs about reform, and reform-related advice relationships. Findings Using multilevel mixed modeling, findings reveal downward trends in leaders' advice-seeking...

... to create learning environments where staff were open to new ideas and work together towards goals. Principals in improving schools were also more likely to create structures that facilitated organizational learning than principals in contrast schools. Originality/value This study is unique because...

...Sharon D. Kruse; Jeff Walls Purpose Seashore Louis has enjoyed a long and productive career, contributing many key understandings to the field; among them, foundational theorizing regarding professional community, organizational learning and the role of principal leadership in organizational...

... leadership. David E. DeMatthews can be contacted at: ddematthews@austin.utexas.edu 06 08 2020 13 11 2020 16 02 2021 03 04 2021 07 04 2021 Organizational learning Special education Administration Principalship © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald...

.... Omer Caliskan can be contacted at: ocaliskanmail@gmail.com 23 07 2020 13 12 2020 10 02 2021 02 03 2021 11 03 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only School principals Organizational learning Failure...

..., it is hardly practiced in most schools. The present theoretical article seeks to offer an integrative conceptual framework in which intelligent failure is conceptualized as an organizational learning process. The purpose is twofold: first, to address the question of why school faculty fails to learn from...

... The extraordinary challenges that confront organizations that operate in crowded and contested environments preclude fast or dramatic results. Policymakers and the public should assume an incremental process of organizational learning and improvement. Setting unrealistic expectations and focusing exclusively...

...Decoteau J. Irby; Shannon P. Clark Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether race-specific language use can advance organizational learning about the racialized nature of school problems. The study addressed two questions: first, is teacher use of racial language associated...

... leads to a formation of professional community (PC) and therefore affects the level of organizational learning (OL). Design/methodology/approach The quantitative study with multiple methods comprising social network analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling...

...Karen Seashore Louis; Joseph Murphy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether principals can have an impact on organizational learning (OL). The authors use a cultural perspective, based both in the emerging literature from positive psychology and the relatively well-developed...

... the strategies that are selected for generating improvement and the more detailed plans developed for ongoing strategy enactment (Copland, 2003 ; McLaughlin and Mitra, 2003 ; McLaughlin and Talbert, 2000 ; Smylie, 2010). Principals Leadership Leaders School reform Organizational learning...

... Empowerment Organizational learning Educational administration In a similar vein, a direct relationship has been proposed between employees’ social learning in the workplace and their sense of impact (Bandura, 1997), which has been defined as the teachers’ self-belief that they have the ability...

... innovations. Performance management Decision making Assessment Organizational learning Organizational routines Data use Evidence-based decision making Data-based decision making Case selection is essential for a quality case study (Merriam, 2009). I aimed to select an extreme case...

... understanding of successful leadership across seven nations. Data sources primarily featured interviews with principals, teachers, staff members, parents, and students. Cases were analyzed within and then across nations with regards to organizational learning (OL), instructional leadership (IL), and culturally...

... be contacted at: bill.mulford@utas.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Australia Educational administration Schools Principals Complexity, Leadership Organizational development Organizational learning Student outcomes Social capital Communities of professional learners Public...

... communities (e.g. Gunn and King, 2003 ; Hargreaves, 1995). M. Bruce King can be contacted at: mbking1@wisc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Organizational learning School reform Bureaucracy Educational policy Equality Leadership There is a relatively clear consensus...

... sacrosanct boundaries of non‐market institutions. In this paper, I argue that the ongoing changes in education management are better understood as instances of organizational learning in response to the limits of bureaucratic organization in turbulent environments. In light of the pros and cons...