Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform [RENTAL EDITION]

"This textbook presents an authoritative, well-established, timely look at organizational behavior and how leaders can create more effective school cultures. It offers future and current practitioners the most up-to-date thinking and the most in-depth exploration of organizational leadership as it relates to decision making, organizational change, managing conflict and communications, and motivating staff and others to achieve organizational goals. The authors challenge readers to analyze the successful implementation of school reform, while helping them gain a professional understanding of organizational theory and research that forms the bedrock of modern practice. The readers are encouraged to use this knowledge to develop their own theory of practice that will guide them into becoming exceptional educational leaders"--