Collegiality

Schools today have many external influences from stakeholders including parents, the community, and even the governmental bodies that preside over the school system in its respective state. The Baldrige National Quality Program lists several influences that can create challenges for schools such as changing demographics, increasing and/or decreasing student population each year, appropriation of funds, changing tax base, state or federal mandates that need to be followed, to competition of…

They also mention that the collegial mode of governance is an efficient, modern form but believe it is not without the help of other governance systems. Collegiality and bureaucracy are both modes of governance in which personal feelings must be put aside in order to not influence the decisions that need to be made. Sahlin and Eriksson-Zetterquis continue to talk about the management system of the collegial…

higher levels of job satisfaction, loyalty and productivity (Cosner, 2009; Hassan et al., 2012). Effective business leaders are emulating the practices of effective leadership in schools with the goal of promoting a culture of trust and collaboration (Hassan et al., 2012). Can trust be built without collaboration and can collaboration exist in the absence of trust? In an organization, is trust established through collaborative efforts or is effective collaboration a product of trusting…

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION Introduction of the Problem According to Young (2012), early childhood education has gained a renewed interest over the past few years focusing on elevating the quality of early childhood programs throughout the nation (p. 5). In the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s Public Policy Report (2012), Strategic Directions: Technical Assistance Professional in State Early Childhood Professional Development Systems, professional development is identified…

3.1 Introduction By definition competence is the ability of an individual to do a job or perform a task properly. A competency is a set of defined behaviors that enables individual employees to differ from one another in terms of evaluation, skills and development. As a term competence appeared in the U.S. in 1959 by R.W. White, and it was a concept of performance motivation. Later, in 1970, Craig Lundberg & Francis Wolek defined this concept in "Planning the Executive Development Program" and…