Transcript Chapter 1
Chapter 1
The school as a Social System
Chapter Overview VIDEO
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Behavior is a function of the interaction of bureaucratic role expectations and the relevant work orientations of the organizational member. 2
Theory
Pages 1-8
Theory (1-8)
Theory and Science – Theory – Concepts – Generalizations Theory and Reality Theory and Research – Hypothesis:
Theory and Practice 4
Systems perspective
Pages 8-17
Systems
Rational System: A Machine Model Natural System: An Organic Model Open System: An Integration 6
Rational-systems perspective
Views organizations as formal instruments designed to achieve specific organizational goals.
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Scientific management: The Beginning
Time and motion studies Division of Labor Standardization Span of Control Principle of homogeneity 8
Contemporary Rational Systems
Goals Formalization Exception principle 9
Theory Into Practice Exercise (13)
Name each person in your school who has formal authority over teachers. What is the role of each? Their titles? How much formal authority do they have and how do they exert it? Give examples.
Describe the division of labor and specialization in the school. Is there a narrow or broad band of control?
How fixed or flexible is the curriculum? How much independence do teachers have to make their own decisions?
How would you characterize the formal organization of your school? 10
Natural System: An organic Model
Natural-systems perspective
Developed in large part as a reaction to the scientific managers and perceived inadequacies of the rational systems model.
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Human Relations: The Beginning
Natural-systems perspective Hawthorne studies Informal organization 13
A Human Resource View (Contemporary Natural Systems)
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Theory Into Practice Exercise (18)
Name each person in the organization who has informal power but does not have formal authority. Why does each person have such power? Where do they get their power?
Describe the important informal norms that exist in your school. How do the informal and formal leaders get along? Give examples of their cooperation.
What group of teachers is the “in-group”? Does the group have a rival? How do the informal groups get along? How much conflict is there between those with formal authority and those with informal authority?
What is conflict about? Give some examples.
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Open System: An Integration
Pages 18-20 Video
Open Systems perspective
A reaction to the unrealistic assumption that organized behavior could be isolated from external forces.
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Theory Into Practice Exercise (20)
Which is more important in your school, the formal or the informal organization? Why?
What area does each control? Where do you fit into the power relations of your school?
What improvements would you try to make to the formal and informal relations in your school if you became the principal? Why?
Who are the people in your school whose voices have been silenced and why?
Finally, To what extent does your principal rely on the formal and informal organization to get things done? What is the balance between the two? Which is more important?
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Properties of Open Systems
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Nine Central Concepts
Inputs Transformational Process Outputs Feedback Boundaries Environment Homeostasis Entropy Equifinality 20
Social-Systems Model
Pages 22-24
Basic Assumptions: Social Systems…
are open systems consist of interdependent parts, characteristics, and activities that contribute and receive from the whole are peopled are goal oriented are structural are normative 22
Basic Assumptions: Social Systems…
are sanction bearing are political have distinctive cultures are conceptual and relative All formal organizations are social systems: But all social systems are not formal organizations 23
Key elements of school social systems
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Formal organization
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Key elements Continued
Structure – Bureaucratic roles Individual – Needs, Goals, Beliefs, Cognition
Culture – Organizational culture Politics 26
Key elements Continued
Technical Core Environment
Internal Feedback Loops: Figure 1.6
External Feedback Loops 27
School as a learning organization (33-34)
Learning organizations Student Learning Create Structures Effective Response 28
Case study
See page 34 in book 29
Conclusion (37)
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Conclusion (37)
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Figure 1.1
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Figure 1.5
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Table 1.1
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Figure 1.6
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Figure 1.3
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