Leadership in Education

Origin of culture Schein (1984) characterizes the concept of organizational culture as follows:   “Organizational culture is the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, and that have worked well enough to be considered valid, and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.” (Schein, 1984) According to Schein (1984) three levels can be distinguished with regard to the culture of an organization, which interact with each other (basic assumptions, values ​​and artifacts & creations). “Organizational culture can be analyzed at several different levels, starting with the visible artifacts — the constructed environment of the organization, its architecture, technology, office layout, manner of dress, visible or audible behavior patterns, and public documents such as...

Lately there has been a lot of talk about the professional space of the teacher. But what space are we actually talking about? Paul Schnabel introduced his '4R model' in 2001. The 4 R's stand for Direction, Space, Result and Accountability. We can also apply this 4R model well in education (Schnabel, 2001). Direction : the school management, in consultation with the team and the other stakeholders, indicates the direction by formulating and adopting policy. For example, we are talking about the mission (what we stand for), vision (what we are going for) and the associated organizational goals. The organizational goals are sometimes also described as the 'what'. What must be achieved when? Weggeman (2015) speaks in this context, among other things, about the importance of working from a collective ambition . He indicates that one of the ways to focus more consciously on the intrinsic motivation of employees and the mental models required for this is to ...