Managing complex educational change: large scale reorganisation of schools

Wallace, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-9689 and Pocklington, Keith 2002. Managing complex educational change: large scale reorganisation of schools. London: Routledge.

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Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change? This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four management themes as realistic strategies for coping with complex educational change: orchestration flexible planning and coordination culture building and communication differentiated support Managing Complex Educational Change is essential reading for all concerned with educational change - managers in schools and colleges, students on advanced courses, trainers, local and regional administrators, academics and policy makers. The research has general implications for the theory and practice of managing complex change.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance L Education > L Education (General)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780415200967
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Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32341

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