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Drysdale, Lawrie, Jeffrey Bennett, Elizabeth T. Murakami, Olof Johansson, and David Gurr. "Heroic leadership in Australia, Sweden, and the United States." International Journal of Educational Management 28, no. 7 (2014): 785–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijem-08-2013-0128.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw from data collected as part of the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) and present cases of democratic and heroic leadership from three countries, discussing to what extent successful school principals in each of their research sites (Melbourne, Australia; Umeå, Sweden; Arizona and Texas in the USA) carry old and new perspectives of heroism in their leadership. In particular the paper explores two questions: first, how do school principals describe aspects of heroic and post-heroic leadership in their practices? and second, how do these heroic and post-heroic leadership practices meet contemporary demands such as accountability standards and build inclusive and collaborative school communities in challenging contexts? Design/methodology/approach – Multiple-perspective case studies involving semi-structured individual and group interviews with principals, teachers, students, parents and school board members were used to understand the contribution of principals and other leadership to school success. Findings – The definitions of heroic and post-heroic leadership are inadequate in defining successful principal leadership. The Australian, Swedish and American principals showed characteristics of both heroic and post-heroic leadership. They showed heroic qualities such as: inspiring and motivating others; challenging the status quo; showing integrity in conflicting situations; putting duty before self; taking risks to champion a better way; showing courage to stand up to those in authority; advocating for students in struggling neighbourhoods under the scrutiny of both district and public expectations; and, showing uncommon commitment. Yet our principals showed post-heroic leadership such as involving others in decision making and recognising that school success depended on collective effort, and being sensitive to community needs through a deep respect for the local culture. Originality/value – The research shows that we may need to redefine and recast our images of who school principals are today, and what they do to generate academic success for students. Both heroic and post-heroic images of leadership are needed to explain successful school leadership.
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Garger, Andrew J., and Richard H. Hobbie. "Participation of Insurers in the Unified Command System in the United States." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1999, no. 1 (1999): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-1999-1-81.

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ABSTRACT The introduction and adoption of the Unified Command System (UCS) /Incident Command System (ICS) under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380, as amended) (OPA 90) has been largely effective, the ongoing training of Federal On-Scene Coordinators (FOSC) by the Coast Guard's Marine Safety School has raised the quality of spill response management, and the development of Spill Management Teams (SMT) by the private sector has also significantly improved the effectiveness of spill response. However, the role that a Responsible Party's (RP) insurance plays in an event is an aspect of marine casualty response that is not adequately addressed in the ICS or by the FOSC. More often than not, the true financial stakeholder during a casualty is not the RP under OPA 90 but rather its multiple insurers. The failure to consider multiple stakeholder interests in the ICS/UCS may result in a delayed, inefficient response or even paralysis on the part of the RP Many RP's do not have the financial resources to fund the potentially high cost of a spill response and it is only through the cooperation and prompt funding by the insurer that the RP is able to respond at all. Yet the system and organization of the response recognizes the RP, but it does not properly involve the insurers as the true stakeholders. It also fails to recognize the complexities and implications of multiple insurers. Creating a mechanism within the framework of the ICS/UCS that recognizes the insurance stakeholder interests, and requires some level of participation by insurers, would improve casualty and spill response. This paper will examine the foregoing issues and discuss why the insurer stakeholder should be included in the ICS/UCS decision making process.
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Ozinga, Sarah J., Susan M. Linder, Mandy Miller Koop, et al. "Normative Performance on the Balance Error Scoring System by Youth, High School, and Collegiate Athletes." Journal of Athletic Training 53, no. 7 (2018): 636–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-129-17.

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Context: Annually, more than 1 million youth athletes in the United States receive or are suspected of receiving a concussion. The Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) is the most commonly used clinical balance evaluation designed to provide a better understanding of the motor-control processes of individuals with concussion. Despite the widespread use of the BESS, a fundamental gap exists in applying this tool to young athletes, as normative values are lacking for this population. Objective: To determine age- and sex-specific normative values for the BESS in youth, high school, and collegiate athletes. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Local youth sport organizations, high schools, and colleges. Patients or Other Participants: Student-athletes (N = 6762) completed preseason baseline concussion testing as part of a comprehensive concussion-management program. Groups were youth males aged 5 to 13 years (n = 360), high school males aged 14 to 18 years (n = 3743), collegiate males aged 19 to 23 years (n = 497), youth females aged 5 to 13 years (n = 246), high school females aged 14 to 18 years (n = 1673), and collegiate females aged 19 to 23 years (n = 243). Main Outcome Measure(s): Errors according to the BESS specifications. Results: Performance on the BESS was worse (P < .01) in youth athletes than in high school and collegiate athletes. In the youth and high school cohorts, females exhibited better scores than males (P < .05). Sex was not a factor for collegiate athletes. Data from the youth cohort were further subdivided into 4-year bins to evaluate potential motor-development differences. The error count was highest for 5- to 9-year-old males and decreased with age. Conclusions: Performance on the BESS depended on sex and age, particularly in youth athletes. These sex- and age-specific normative values provide a reference to facilitate and unify clinical decision making across multiple providers caring for youth athletes with concussions.
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Reynolds, Thomas J. "LifeGoals: The Development of a Decision-Making Curriculum for Education." Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 24, no. 1 (2005): 75–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1509/jppm.24.1.75.63890.

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After more than two decades of academic and professional work focusing on the development of psychological theory, research methods, and decision modeling techniques in marketing, the author applies his knowledge to solve what he believes is the single greatest challenge facing the United States—the development of a curriculum and corresponding pedagogy to teach decision-making skills to at-risk children. The initial targets were elementary schoolchildren, but during the developmental process, the author expanded the curriculum to include at-risk young adults and, more recently, MBA students. This chapter began after he retired as professor emeritus (1995) from a school of management and embarked on this new journey into the field of education. 1
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Steinberg, Richard H. "In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT/WTO." International Organization 56, no. 2 (2002): 339–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002081802320005504.

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This article explains how consensus decision making has operated in practice in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO). When GATT/WTO bargaining is law-based, consensus outcomes are Pareto-improving and roughly symmetrical. When bargaining is power-based, states bring to bear instruments of power that are extrinsic to rules, invisibly weighting the process and generating consensus outcomes that are asymmetrical and may not be Pareto-improving. Empirical analysis shows that although trade rounds have been launched through law-based bargaining, hard law is generated when a round is closed, and rounds have been closed through power-based bargaining. Agenda setting has taken place in the shadow of that power and has been dominated by the European Community and the United States. The decision making rules have been maintained because they help generate information used by powerful states in the agenda-setting process. Consensus decision making at the GATT/WTO is organized hypocrisy, allowing adherence to the instrumental reality of asymmetrical power and the sovereign equality principle upon which consensus decision making is purportedly based.
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Carroll, Barbara Wake. "Systemic Conservatism in North American Organizations." Organization Studies 11, no. 3 (1990): 413–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/017084069001100305.

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Rational theories of organizational decision-making have shown that organiza tional outcomes and performance reflect a mixture of behavioural, structural and contextual factors, such as the goals of managers, the size and function of the organization, and the condition of the external environment. Critiques of this model suggest that non-rational factors such as national or systemic cultural values also affect the decision-making process. This article treats Canada and the United States as similar systems that differ in the degree to which their cultures embody conservative values. The author hypothesizes that the expenditure pat terns of organizations in the two countries will reflect this variation in systemic conservatism, and tests this expectation against data from a longitudinal sample of firms from three industries in each of the two countries. The analysis suggests that the impact and relative importance of the factors included in rational models of decision-making differ in Canada and the U.S. in ways that are consistent with the systemic conservatism hypothesis.
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Archer, Melanie. "Family Enterprise in an Industrial City: Strategies for the Family Organization of Business in Detroit, 1880." Social Science History 15, no. 1 (1991): 67–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200021015.

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While families have historically provided the basis of business organization in the United States, in the late nineteenth century the development of corporations and managerial capitalism weakened their role in business, especially in management (Bell 1962; Chandler 1977; Farber 1972; Hall 1977,1988; Kanter 1978; Mills 1956; Shammas et al. 1987). Chandler (1977) has postulated a historical decline in family management, control, and decision making in firms with the growth of industrial capitalism; others have asserted a continued presence of the family in business ownership (Davis and Stern 1980; Lansberg et al. 1988).
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Preuss, Gil A., and Brenda A. Lautsch. "The Effect of Formal Versus Informal Job Security on Employee Involvement Programs." Articles 57, no. 3 (2003): 517–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/006888ar.

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SummaryThis study examines the effect of employee involvement and job insecurity on employee satisfaction and commitment. A data set incorporating information from employees, managers and government sources in fifteen hospitals in a single metropolitan region in the United States is used to test these issues. In contrast to previous research, we find that workers’ satisfaction and commitment persist as long as the form of employee involvement in place increases worker input and control in their jobs and as long as management is perceived to be making clear efforts to enhance the future security of workers’ jobs. Employee perception of management effort to maintain employment security, however, is based on past downsizing within the organization, thus raising the potential that continued downsizing will increase insecurity and therefore will decrease both employee desire to participate in decision-making, as well as employee satisfaction and commitment to the organization.
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BONDS, MATTHEW H., and JEFFREY J. POMPE. "Improving institutional incentives for public land management: an econometric analysis of school trust land leases." Journal of Institutional Economics 1, no. 2 (2005): 193–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744137405000123.

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There is considerable interest in the proper management of public lands in the United States, but questions arise over what institutional arrangements may ensure proper land stewardship. Recently, the trust doctrine has been heralded as a way to motivate prudent decision making by land managers. School trust lands, which are managed to generate revenues for public schools, represent a long-standing example of the trust doctrine at work. We examine Mississippi school trust leases and show that the trustees, who are elected officials, maintain multiple conflicting objectives, which ultimately undermine the trust relationship. However, we find that a recent institutional change that made the Boards of Education (the fund recipients) the trustees, caused revenues to increase dramatically.
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Schwarz, Colleen, and Andrew Schwarz. "To Adopt or Not to Adopt." Journal of Organizational and End User Computing 26, no. 4 (2014): 57–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2014100104.

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For several decades the information systems field has studied the individual-level decision to adopt Information Technology (IT) with the primary goal of making it easier for organizations to derive value out of IT by increasing their effective and efficient use of the deployed IT. While the topic of non-adoption has been discussed within the literature, the focus in previous work has been upon the perceptions of the individual towards the innovation (or a micro-level of analysis), neglecting the broader context within which the adoption/non-adoption decision takes place (or a macro-level of analysis). However, what about situations in which there is institutional pressure influencing an adoption decision? This paper posits that institutional pressure external to an organization may alter the directionality and outcome of the decision. This study adopts the Technology-Organization-Environment framework to examine the context of a physician's decision about whether or not to adopt Electronic Medical Record (or EMR) technology. It reports on a multiple state study within the United States that examines the technology, organization, and environmental factors that discriminate between adopters and non-adopters.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "School management and organization – United States – Decision making"

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Pitre, Leighton J. "Organizational cynicism at the United States Naval Academy : an exploratory study /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Jun%5FPitre.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004.<br>Thesis advisor(s): Roderick Bacho, Susan Hocevar. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-51). Also available online.
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Hinojosa, Eliu Misael. "Superintendents' perceptions of curriculum management audits." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3026198.

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Silman, Fatos. "A Comparative Case Study On School Management Practices In The United States And Turkey." Phd thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12606236/index.pdf.

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This study aimed to comparatively examine school management practices in the US and Turkey in light of the two distinct administrative paradigms:Anglo-Saxon and Napoleonic traditions. In this study, a comparative case study method was used. The study was conducted in a basic education school (grades 1-8) in Ankara, Turkey, and in an elementary school (K-5) in Madison, the capital city of the state of Wisconsn, US. The sample contained 13 teachers and 4 administrators in the Turkish case, and 10 teachers and 1 school principal in the US case. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and written document analysis. Findings revealed that at the Turkish school, school management practices were not carried out effectively mainly due to the centralized education system, poor physical conditions of the school, lack of participatory and collaborative understanding of the staff members, lack of communication among the staff and limited school budgeting. On the other hand, the management practices in the American school were implemented successfull owing mainly to the school&#039<br>s embedded decentralized structure, participatory and collaborative understanding among the school staff, effective communication strategies of the principal, and various options of in-service training offered for the school staff.
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Marchbanks, Marsha Lea 1952. "Academic teaming : a study of the decision-making processes on selected middle schools." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/12733.

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Jay, Short Rick, and Brinson Kenneth 1961-, eds. Information collection: The key to data-based decision making. Eye on Education, 1998.

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Kowalski, Theodore J. Data-driven decisions and school leadership: Best practices for school improvement. A&B/Pearson, 2008.

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1964-, Elliott Kimberly Ann, and Harmon Jeanne, eds. Teacher leader stories: The power of case methods. Corwin Press, 2011.

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The law of higher education: A comprehensive guide to legal implications of administrative decision making. 2nd ed. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1985.

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A, Lee Barbara, ed. The law of higher education: A comprehensive guide to legal implications of administrative decision making. 4th ed. Jossey-Bass, 2006.

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Kaplin, William A. The law of higher education: A comprehensive guide to legal implications of administrative decision making. 4th ed. Jossey-Bass, 2006.

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Kaplin, William A. The law of higher education: A comprehensive guide to legal implications of administrative decision making. 4th ed. Jossey-Bass, 2006.

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A, Lee Barbara, ed. The law of higher education: A comprehensive guide to legal implications of administrative decision making. 3rd ed. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995.

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W, Lawyer John, ed. Resolving conflict successfully: Needed knowledge and skills. Corwin Press, 1994.

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Doyle, Denis P. Raising the standard: An eight-step action guide for schools and communities. Corwin Press, 1997.

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Martin, R. Keith. "Great Plans - Little Planning." In Virtual Education. IGI Global, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-93177-739-1.ch018.

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This case describes the near disintegration of a company due to uncontrolled growth, inadequate information systems and ineffective (or perhaps incompetent) decision making. Selesian Manufacturing Company, Inc., grew from a small, privately held operation doing business only in the United States, to a publicly held company with operations in several foreign countries. As the company’s business expanded, the inadequacies of the founder/president’s management competencies, and the lack of effective corporate information systems, resulted in serious organizational and operational problems. The case illustrates the problems that can develop quickly when an organization does not have defined goals, effective management and supporting information systems.
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Hernandez, Susan D., and Mary E. Clark. "Building Capacity and Public Involvement Among Native American Communities." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1251.

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Abstract The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) supports a number of local community initiatives to encourage public involvement in decisions regarding environmental waste management and remediation. Native American tribal communities, in most cases, operate as sovereign nations, and thus have jurisdiction over environmental management on their lands. This paper provides examples of initiatives addressing Native American concerns about past radioactive waste management practices — one addresses uranium mining wastes in the Western United States and the other, environmental contamination in Alaska. These two projects involve the community in radioactive waste management decision-making by encouraging them to articulate their concerns and observations; soliciting their recommended solutions; and facilitating leadership within the community by involving local tribal governments, individuals, scientists and educators in the project. Frequently, a community organization, such as a local college or Native American organization, is selected to manage the project due to their cultural knowledge and acceptance within the community. It should be noted that U.S. EPA, consistent with Federal requirements, respects Indian tribal self-government and supports tribal sovereignty and self-determination. For this reason, in the projects and initiatives described in the presentation, the U.S. EPA is involved at the behest and approval of Native American tribal governments and community organizations. Objectives of the activities described in this presentation are to equip Native American communities with the skills and resources to assess and resolve environmental problems on their lands. Some of the key outcomes of these projects include: • Training teachers of Navajo Indian students to provide lessons about radiation and uranium mining in their communities. Teachers will use problem-based education, which allows students to connect the subject of learning with real-world issues and concerns of their community. Teachers are encouraged to utilize members of the community and to conduct field trips to make the material as relevant to the students. • Creating an interactive database that combines scientific and technical data from peer-reviewed literature along with complementary Native American community environmental observations. • Developing educational materials that meet the national science standards for education and also incorporate Native American culture, language, and history. The use of both Native American and Western (Euro-American) educational concepts serve to reinforce learning and support cultural identity. The two projects adopt approaches that are tailored to encourage the participation of, and leadership from, Native American communities to guide environmental waste management and remediation on their lands. These initiatives are consistent with the government-to-government relationship between Native American tribes and the U.S. government and support the principle that tribes are empowered to exercise their own decision-making authority with respect to their lands.
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Ballard, Geoff, Refaul Ferdous, Anthony Payoe, and Amanda Kulhawy. "Application of Risk and Reliability in Designing Facility Site Containment." In 2020 13th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2020-9261.

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Abstract Enbridge is North America’s premier energy infrastructure company delivering the energy people need and want. Enbridge’s business value is asset intensive. With over 200 onshore liquids pipelines facility assets, operational safety and environmental protection are always top priorities. The embedment of risk management practices in business decisions is an effective way to appropriately optimize asset performance while avoiding catastrophic impacts to people and the environment. This includes understanding and managing these risk events and establishing barriers to prevent the impact. Facility site containment is an independent protection layer that mitigates the consequences of a spill. The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the National Fire Code of Canada provide requirements to contain overland flow of a spill from liquids pipelines facility assets. Although there are specific volumetric requirements for spill containment for facility tanks, there are no specific volumetric requirements for spill containment for pipeline facility assets such as pumps, valves, etc. Industry typically employs an index-based approach to determine the specific design volumes using catastrophic rupture volumes and facility location. This approach has several shortcomings, including design inadequacy, inconsistency, and challenges with scalability. A risk-based approach is appropriate in determining the required site containment volume based on oil spill history, facility assets, and environmental sensitivities. A probabilistic model can be created using historical facility oil spill data based on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA’s) facility incident database to estimate the likelihood of a given size of release occurring. If available, company oil spill history can also be used or integrated with the PHMSA dataset. Combining the likelihood of the size of release occurring with the estimated consequence (by accounting for the volume of a release and the environmental sensitivity at the release location), it is possible to evaluate the risk of a release. This estimation of risk can then be leveraged to support facility site containment design to manage the risk to an acceptable level. By informing facility site containment with volumetric requirements using reliability and consequence models and risk management principles, an organization can prudently balance pipeline safety and capital constraints to comply with federal regulations. This paper demonstrates this approach and describes: • The value of available data and model development • Reliability modeling and consequence assessment • Risk-informed decision-making • Future model enhancements
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