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Objectives
By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:
1. Explain the effects of systematic change on
effective educational institutional management.
2. Discuss the conditions that are condusive to
change in educational institutions.
3. Suggest strategies for change for effective
institutional leadership.
Introduction
The present educational environment demands
educational leaders and managers to handle change,
which require them to make major changes in the
organisations, especially in schools.
A proposed change is either a top-down change or
initiated change. Even though change is expected to
bring positive results, it will still challenge the status quo
and may pose threatening situations to certain
individuals.
Razik and Swanson (2010) argue that in the current
turbulent environment, leaders have the responsibility
to maintain organisational stability despite the constant
change.
Change as defined
According to Razik and Swanson (2010), there
are three basic questions we need to ask about
change:
What is change?
What are the scenarios of current changes?
Why are changes necessary? We will now
explore systemic change and its effects on
effective educational institutional management.
Definition
Hanson (1985)
2. Expedient change
Short-term change, which normally is reactive
in nature, implemented by the organisation to
meet immediate concerns. An alteration of
annual financial resources to finance the cost
for repairing a damaged roof due to storm is an
example of expedient change.
3. Essential change
Internally driven change initiated by the
organisation to monitor and to improve
performance. Updating the curriculum within
the appropriate time frame is an example of
essential change, aims to improve program
marketability.
4. Planned change
A deliberate and planned attempt to change,
aims to fulfil the achievement of predetermined
objectives and goals within the organisational
values. A strategic plan developed to achieve
certain specified objectives is an example of a
planned change.
Activity
Explain each of the six conditions in the above
figure.
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Strategy
Planned change
Rationalempirical
Normativereeducative
Power-coercive
Explanation
Identify changes and use forces to bring about change.
Leaders need to minimise those members who wish to
maintain status quo and increase those members who push
for change.
Strategy
Environmentaladaptive
Attitude change
Transactional change
Explanation
Activity
Assume that you have been appointed to give a 30minute presentation about change to your organisation.
Identify what area is in dire need of change and
determine what strategy you think is most appropriate
to implement such change.
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