`This is an exceptional book. It tempted me to throw out most of my collected works on the management of change, because the author has somehow succeeded by including almost every aspect of educational change that any practitioner would wish to...
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`This is an exceptional book. It tempted me to throw out most of my collected works on the management of change, because the author has somehow succeeded by including almost every aspect of educational change that any practitioner would wish to consider..Overall this is a very stimulating book. It is packed with information and the ideas and concepts contained could pack a school development plan for many years' - School Leadership and Management. The theories and practices from the literature on business, manufacturing and commerce which inform principles for managing change in education are
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-239) and index
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Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Macrocontexts of Change; 1 - The Context of Change; 2 - Elements of Change; 3 - Managing Change: the Japanese Model; 4 - Change and the Push for Quality; Part II: Microcontexts of Change; 5 - Individual Motivations for and against Change; 6 - Organizational Factors and Change; 7 - Teamwork; 8 - Leadership, Senior Management and the Expertise of the Change Agent; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
