ion will not facilitate goals. Trust and open and honest communication is required for effective interactions. Thus typical mechanisms must include equal representation of all parties, working interdependently and collaboratively to promote trust.
4. How do you build a sense of inclusiveness, and equal value of al staff members?
To ensure a sense of inclusiveness and equal value of all staff members, meetings must include equal representation of all parties. Mistrust developed in this case when meetings included only certain staff members from particular groups.
5. How do you empower staff to arrive at consensus decision making that is sensitive to all staff and students?
Support for staff is important to empower them as is equal representation of all parties. When each is a part of decision-making and each receives support for decisions and their implementation, consensus decision-making is facilitated.
6. How do you deal with difficult people so they can work out personal issues themselves?
Difficult people also require equal representation and support. Support will allow an individual to work out their own issues.
7. Analyze this case through the lens of ParsonÆs technical, managerial, and institutional levels of control.
ParsonÆs technical level focuses on academia as evidenced through high expectations, orderly learning environment, and strong teacher affiliation to the school, each other, and the belief that all students can learn. In this case the focus on academia is compromised by distrust, which erupts teacher affiliations to the school and each other.
The managerial level demands that principal behavior is open, supportive, and guided by equality norms. The first principal was more focused on the goals of change than she was on being open and supportive, and she was clearly not guided by equality norms. This behavior led to mistrust.
The institutional level includes the degree a ...