Principal succession : establishing leadership in schools / / Ann Weaver Hart ; foreword by William Greenfield

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821977803321
• Autore: Hart Ann Weaver <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1993
• ISBN: 1-4384-0595-2; 0-585-06433-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages)
• Collana: SUNY series, educational leadership
• Disciplina: 371.2/012
• Soggetti: School principals - United States; Leadership - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-337) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- I. FOUNDATIONS OF LEADER SUCCESSION IN THEORY AND RESEARCH -- 1. Changing Principals -- Principal Succession -- Principal Socialization -- Principal Professional Socialization Research -- Summarizing Organizational Socialization for Succession Research -- 2. Leader Succession Research -- Succession Effects -- Succession as a Boundary Delineating Leadership Effects -- Succession Context in Organizations -- Stages of Managerial Succession -- Leadership and Leader Succession -- Combining and Expanding Views of Succession -- 3. The Conceptual Roots of Organizational Socialization -- Interaction: The Fundamental Unit of Analysis -- Multiple Process Theories of Interaction -- Self-concept -- Outcomes -- II. PRINCIPALS IN SUCCESSION: A POTPOURRI OF EXPERIENCES -- 4. A Faculty's Perspective of a Succession -- The Setting -- How the Faculty Experienced the Succession -- The Teachers' View of Organizational Socialization -- Contributions from Organizational Socialization -- 5. An Outsider Successor's Personal View -- The Succession Setting -- The New Principal -- The Social Dynamic of a Succession -- The Insider's View of Organizational Socialization -- 6. The Professional and Organizational Socialization of Principals: Analysis of Additional Research -- Studies of Newly Appointed Principals -- The Organizational Socialization of New Principals -- III. LEADER SUCCESSION AND SOCIALIZATION: THE FUTURE ; IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE -- 7. Implications for Research on Leader Succession in Schools -- Issues in the Organizational Socialization of Principals -- Implications for Research Methodologies -- Research Propositions -- 8. Improving Leader Succession in Schools -- Socialization Stages -- Groups Empower Principals through Social Validation -- School Leaders Should Demonstrate Valued Knowledge and Skills.; The Socialization of Principals Can Be Deliberately Influenced by Superiors -- Current Practice Promotes a Custodial Response -- Socialization Occurs With or Without Planning -- People Expect Change During Succession -- The Need for Stability and the Need for Creativity Will Conflict -- School Leaders Can Affect the Processing of Information that Shapes Interpretations and Actions During Succession -- Socially Incongruent Leaders Can Succeed and Contribute -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.