EPEL 7500 Human Resource Management and School Operations

1. EPEL 7500 Human Resource Management and School Operations Summer 2009 Nancy Sharpe Strawbridge, Ed.D.

2. FYI—our online site: • http://strawbridgesummer2009.wikispaces.com/

3. What do we know for sure about what works in schools?What are the implications for Human Resources? for organizational planning?

4. HR & Organizational Theories • Organizational theories • Schools as learning communities; organizational learning • School based management (SBM); school based decision making (SBDM) • Transcendental leadership • Bolman & Deal’s Frames

5. Schools as Learning Communities • Dufour & Eaker • Senge (systems thinking) • Jim Collins (Good to Great in the Social Sector)

6. School Based Management (SBM) Site Based Decision Making (SBDM) • Priscilla Wohlstetter • Murphy & Beck • KERA, 1990 • What about School Councils in Georgia?

7. Transcendental Leadership (Rebore) • Human resource functions take place in a very complex arena. • Human resource leaders have very little job security. • Functions of governance and administration can complicate human resource functions tremendously.

8. Bolman & Deal’s Four Frames • Factories (structural) • Families (human resource) • Jungles (political) • Temples (symbolic)

9. Organizing Groups and Teams (Bolman & Deal) • What is the nature of individuals’ dealings with each other? • What is the spatial distribution of the members? • Where is the authority in the group? • How will the group function?

10. High performing teams . . . • Shape purpose in response to demand and opportunity • Translate common purpose into specific, measurable performance goals • Are of manageable size • Have (or develop) the right mix of expertise

11. Develop a common commitment to working relationships • Hold themselves collectively accountable • Manage themselves • What to do . . . When, where to work? • Have the autonomy to make decisions • Take action to remedy problems.

12. People and organizations (individual v. group) • Research began with Mary Parker Follett in 1918 • Organizations exist to serve people and not the other way around. • The “fit” between individual and organizations need to be a good one.

13. Organizations ask, “What can this person do for us? How can we retain this person?” • Workers as, “How will this job fit my needs?”

14. Standards for School Leadership • 8 Roles of School Leaders (GLISI)* • Curriculum, Assessment & Instruction • Data Analysis • Process Improvement • Learning and Performance Development • Relationships • Performance • Operations • Change *based on the ISLLC standards

15. Standards for School Leadership • Guiding standards for Human Resource functions (from GLISI 8 Roles) • Data analysis • Demonstrates the ability to lead teams in analyzing multiple data sources to identify needs, symptoms and root causes • Learning and performance • Demonstrates the ability to plan for improved performance; assist individuals in using strengths to attain personal and organizational goals; creating a collaborative teaching and learning organization

16. Relationships • Demonstrates the ability to develop and maintain relationships among a variety of stakeholders • Operations • Demonstrates the ability to effectively and efficiently organize resources to support students • Change • Demonstrates the ability to drive and sustain change in a collegial environment focused on student achievement and well-being