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This book explores the limits to rational management. The authors develop the idea of organizational irony as a central concept for analyzing and explaining management activity in a managerialist environment. Drawing on international research as well as their own extensive experience in educational organizations, the authors show that effectiveness is not necessarily the result of over-rationalistic approaches to educational management.

Focusing on school leadership and management, authors Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace suggest that major reforms have had limited success because the changes introduced have diverted school staff from their core task of promoting student learning. The result is dissatisfaction, frustration, and stress. The authors use the ironic perspective to show how practitioners respond by mediating the reforms. They argue that a more temperate approach to leadership and management supported by wise policy-making can create structures that take the strain and reduce stress, encourage autonomy while accepting associated risks, and sponsor moderate experimentation and innovation emerging from communities of professional practice.

This book is essential reading for all concerned with improving education: advanced course students, leaders and managers, trainers, administrators, policy-makers and academics. It also offers insights for the study of public service and business organizations.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Part 1 The Nature of Irony
• Introducing the Ironic Perspective
• Endemic Ambiguities
• The Preconditions Of Irony
• The Ambiguities of Policy Implementation
• Part 2 Irony and Managerialism
• From Management to Managerialism
• A Solution in Search of a Problem
• Part 3 The Rhetoric of Managerialism and Leadership
• The Myth of Transformation
• Transmissional Leadership for Political Transformation
• Part 4 The Ironic Response and the Future of Managerialism
• Patterns of Ironic Response
• The Ironic Orientation and Professional Practice
• Temperate Leadership and Management
• Living With Irony

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Eric Hoyle is Emeritus Professor and Senior Fellow in the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. His major interests are in organization theory, the professions, and professional development. He is the author of The Politics of School Management and (with Peter John) Professional Knowledge and Professional Practice.

Mike Wallace is a Professor of Education in the Department of Education, University of Bath. His research interest is in the management of change in education and other public services. He is the author (with Keith Pocklington) of Managing Complex Educational Change and editor (with Louise Poulson) of the teaching text Learning to Read Critically in Educational Leadership and Management.