Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism

by Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761967427
• ISBN13: 9780761967422
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.5"