Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform

by Robert G. Owens

The American, Taylor, emphasized the principles that viewed administration as management—the coordination of many small tasks to accomplish the overall job as efficiently as possible.

The Frenchman, Fayol, emphasized broader preparation of administrators so that they would perform their unique functions in the organization more effectively.

Germany’s Max Weber held that bureaucracy is a theory of organization especially suited to the needs of large and complex enterprises that perform ...

the period from 1910 to 1935 generally can be thought of as the era of ...

Raymond E. Callahan

Though some educational administrators harbored doubts about all of this, there was a rush among school superintendents to get on the bandwagon of the day by adopting the jargon and practices of those with high status in the society—business executives.