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Reflective Management: The Key to Quality Leadership
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The maintenance of a distinction between management and leadership behaviours at the conceptual and/or practical level negates the search for a "practical theory" of leadership as mentioned in this paper, which is the foundation of our work.Abstract:
The maintenance of a distinction between management and leadership behaviours at the conceptual and/or practical level negates the search for a “practical theory” of leadership. If management is viewed as an art, management and leadership behaviours are inextricably intertwined in an organisational setting. Both activities are part of the cultural action of an organisation.read more
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The Relationship Between Transformational and Transactional Leadership and School Improvement Outcomes
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School Leadership and School Development: reflections from research
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Leader development across the lifespan: A dynamic experiences-grounded approach
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Educative Leadership: A Practical Theory.
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Barry Checkoway,Donald A. Schön +1 more
Educating the reflective practitioner
TL;DR: Building on the concepts of professional competence that he introduced in his classic The Reflective Practitioner, Schon offers an approach for educating professional in all areas that will prepare them to handle the complex and unpredictable problems of actual practice with confidence, skill, and care.
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IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE - Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied 43 successful American companies to discover the secrets of the art of American management, including a bias for action-preferring to do something, anything, rather than performing endless analyses and convening committees, staying close to the customer learning and catering to the client's preferences, autonomy and entrepreneurship, productivity through people, making all employees aware that best efforts are vital and that they will have part of the rewards of the firm's success, hands-on, value driven, and stick to the knitting.
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Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis
TL;DR: The significance of the concept of culture for organizational analysis has been examined in this article, where a review demonstrates that the concept takes organization analysis in several different and promising directions, such as comparative management, corporate culture, organizational cognition, organizational symbolism, and unconscious processes and organization.
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On Studying Organizational Cultures
TL;DR: An overview of the longitudinal-processual theory of organizational formation can be found in this article, with a focus on the factors and elements of an organization's creation and formation rather than its existent structures or practices.