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How Superintendents Prepare School Districts forChange
by Patty A Main
Institution: | Ohio University |
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Year: | 2017 |
Keywords: | Education; Education Policy; Educational Leadership; Educational Psychology; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior; Active Participation; Change; Change Readiness; Change Strategies; Change Model; Communication; Disconfirmation; Discrepancy; |
Posted: | 02/01/2018 |
Record ID: | 2217035 |
Full text PDF: | http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou14836300290792 |
This study was a quest toward understanding howsuperintendents prepare districts for change in response to variousinternal and external environmental forces. This study focused onaspects of the change readiness process. Finally, this study soughtto answer questions regarding aspects of a climate and specificstrategies superintendents utilize that hinder or assist inpreparing a district for change. This research was a qualitativecase study bounded by a shared experience. The informants consistedof a purposeful selection of maximum variation, four public schoolsuperintendents from Ohio. The four informants were identified anddata were collected using the interview process. Saldana's (2010)multi-cycle coding method was used to analyze thedata.Interpretation of the data revealed support for the threeconditions of a climate included in Schein's (2010) Change Model.Analysis of the interview data also revealed a number of strategiesthat assisted superintendents in preparing a district for change(persuasive communication, active participation, pacing, anddiscrepancy.) Lastly, various strategies were identified ashindering the process of preparing a district for change (personalsupport and discrepancy).Advisors/Committee Members: Machtmes, Krisanna (Committee Chair).
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