CREATING EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: REPORTS ON ADMINISTRATORS' METHODS
Abstract
Educational administrators are assigned the job of improving education by improving the quality of instruction. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse supervisors' methods. This study explores how they think they can have some effect. Eleven methods administrators report they use to effect change in subordinates are discussed. The methods are: option creating, focusing, modelling, persuading, direct ordering, threatening, and propagating. Supervisors are assessed as placing a high emphasis, medium emphasis, low emphasis, or no emphasis on a particular method. The analysis and comparison of supervisors' methods illuminate the organizational change process. RÉSUMÉ Les administrateurs du système d'éducation ont pour mandat d'améliorer l'éducation en relevant la qualité de l'enseignement. Cet article vise à décrire et à analyser diverses méthodes utilisées par les superviseurs, et notamment la façon dont ils estiment pouvoir exercer une certaine influence. Onze méthodes que des administrateurs affirment utiliser pour provoquer des changements chez leurs subordonnés sont ainsi analysées. Ces méthodes sont: la création d'options, la focalisation, la modélisation, la persuasion, les ordres directs, les menaces et la propagation. L'évaluation des superviseurs se fait en fonction de l'importance (grande, moyenne, faible ou nulle) qu'ils attachent à une méthode particulière. L'analyse et la comparaison des méthodes utilisées par les superviseurs illustrent le processus de changement organisationnel.Downloads
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1990-04-01
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Ritchie, T. J. (1990). CREATING EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: REPORTS ON ADMINISTRATORS’ METHODS. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 25(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7923
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