Educational Leadership Flashcards
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Educational Leadership: Structural Framework’s 6 Assumptions
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- Organizations exist to achieve established goals and objectives and devise strategies to reach those goals
- Organizations increase efficiency and enhance performance through specializations and appropriate division of labor
- Suitable forms of coordination and control ensure that diverse efforts of individuals and units mesh
- Organizations work best when rationality prevails over personal agendas and extraneous pressures
- Effective structures fit and organization’s current circumstances (including its strategy technology, workforce, and environment)
- When performance suffers from structural flaws, the remedy is problem solving and restructuring
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Educational Leadership: Symbolic Framework’s 5 Suppositions
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- What is most important is not what happens but what it means.
- Activity and meaning are loosely coupled; events and actions have multiple interpretations as people experience situations differently.
- In the face of uncertainty and ambiguity, symbols arise to help people resolve confusion, find direction, and anchor hope and faith.
- Events and processes are often more important for what they express or signal than for their intent or outcomes. Their emblematic form weaves a tapestry of secular myths, heroes and heroines, rituals, ceremonies, and stories to help people find purpose and passion.
- Culture forms the superglue that bonds an organization, unites people, and helps an enterprise to accomplish desired ends.
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Educational Leadership: Symbolic Framework’s Organizational Symbols
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- Myths, Vision, and Values
- UCLA’s inverted fountain, activities around rivalry week convey what is valued.
- Heroes and Heroines
- Given god-like reverence, such as Coach Wooden.
- Stories and Fairy Tales
- Changing from CLC to CLU.
- Ritual
- Campus closing for Chapel for 1 hour each week.
- Ceremony
- Serves to socialize, stabilize, reassure, and convey messages to external constituencies.
- Like Commencement.
