Understanding Schools as High-Reliability Organizations: An Exploratory Examination of Teachers' and School Leaders' Perceptions of Success.

Autor: LORTON, JULI A., BELLAMY, G. THOMAS, REECE, ANNE, CARLSON, JILL
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Zdroj: Journal of School Leadership; Nov2013, Vol. 23 Issue 6, p109-132, 24p
Abstrakt: Drawing on research on high-reliability organizations, this interview-based qualitative case study employs four characteristics of such organizations as a lens for analyzing the operations of one very successful K-5 public school. Results suggest that the school had processes similar to those characteristic of high-reliability organizations: a commitment to a "dual bottom line" that clarifies what to achieve and what to avoid; reliance on "skeptical standardization" to bring consistency to the school's instruction; simultaneous use of "constrained improvisation" that empowered teaches to adapt standard procedures in response to student learning difficulties; and strategies for combining standardized and improvisational strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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