... Improvement Organizations School reform Interviews occurred over zoom and lasted 45–60 min. We were broad in developing interview questions in order to understand participants’ experiences and beliefs related to system improvement. This allowed us to remain open to themes that emerged outside...

... relatively limited attention to the impact of business on education. Design/methodology/approach This paper describes a theoretical framework drawn from organization theory that identifies five types of influence of business on education. The emerging literature on business‐school relations is accessed...

... superintendent within the school organization often keeps him/her distant from most building level curriculum decisions and classroom instruction (Björk, 1993; Pitner, 1979). “The leadership of the principal has been consistently cited as the most significant factor in the success of campus change efforts...

... Schools Leadership Effectiveness Organizations Papua New Guinea An early school effectiveness study (e.g. Edmonds, 1979) concluded that strong administrative leadership was a characteristic of instructionally‐effective schools. Other more recent studies (e.g. Wildy and Dimmock, 1993; Rosenblum...

... and involvement, they can be considered relatively robust organizations. This study employed a sample of 38 junior high and middle schools to test a hypothesis predicting a significant positive relationship between school health and robustness. Multiple regression analysis tended to support this hypothesis...

... to organisation and bricks and mortar rather than to the secret garden of the curriculum into which only the initiated might enter (Manzer, 1970). He set out to influence both curriculum content and pedagogy. As a direct result, the Schools Council was born in 1963. It embarked on an extensive programme...

... that openness in the school climate is directly related to authenticity in both. Organizations Research Schools The organizational climate of elementary and secondary schools has been conceptualized and operationalized in numerous studies[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. The results of that research have...

... in a scenario; and two major concepts in organizational theory, organizational myths and organizational goals, provide the frame of reference against which the data are analysed. The results reveal that the behaviour of organizations involved can influence the decision‐making process in project establishment...