Advanced Concepts in Public School Administration

Midterm

  1. Indicate the type of management that each of the following theorists are associated with: A. Scientific B. Neo-Scientific C. Human Relations D. Human Resources
  1. Douglas McGregor ______
  2. Elton Mayo______
  3. Fredrick Taylor______
  4. Max Weber______
  5. Henri Fayol______

B. Indicate the type of management that each of the following concepts is associated with: A. Scientific B. Neo-Scientific C. Human Relations D. Human Resources

  1. Productivity of workers could be increased by meeting their social needs at work ______.
  2. Satisfaction is derived from the completion of important and meaningful work ______.
  3. Workers are viewed as appendages of management ______.
  4. Close personal supervision is employed to ensure that teachers teach the way they’re supposed to ______.
  5. Impersonal monitoring of standardized measures _____.
  6. Time and motion studies by efficiency experts ______.
  7. Based on careful observation and task analysis _____.
  8. Based on research at Western Electric Hawthorn Plant _____.
  9. Supervisor adopts shared decision making to increase teacher satisfaction, which increases school effectiveness ______.
  10. Supervisor adopts shared decision making to increase school effectiveness, which increases teacher satisfaction ______.
  1. Match the following characteristics to A. Theory X B. Theory Y C. Theory Z D. None of these
  1. Teachers are indolent_____.
  2. Teachers are resistant to change _____.
  3. It is management’s task to arrange organizational conditions so that teachers can reach their goals _____.
  4. Teachers are indifferent to the needs of the school _____.
  5. Teachers are capable of directing their own efforts _____.
  1. Match the following theorists with the following concepts : A. Fredrick Taylor,

B. Henri Fayol, C. Max Weber, D. Elton Mayo, E. Douglas McGregor, F. Abraham Maslow, G. Frederick Hertzberg

  1. Hierarchy of human needs _____.
  2. Human variability is an important determinant of productivity _____.
  3. Break the job down into small, related tasks _____.
  4. Theory X & Y ______.
  5. Hope lies in the establishment of well-run bureaucracies ______.
  6. Focused attention on the manager not the worker in scientific management _____.
  7. Incentive pay systems _____.
  8. Self-actualization is the highest human need ______.
  9. Hawthorn Electric Plant research _____.
  10. A well-defined hierarchy of authority _____.

E. Match the following to Giffith’s model below: A. Teacher, B. Kean Township, C. Kean High School, D. Chemistry Department


  1. The Role _____.
  2. The Work Group _____.
  3. The Organization _____.
  4. The Culture _____.

F. Fill in Getzels and Guba’s Model by selecting the correct letter below:

  1. Role _____.
  2. Individual ____.
  3. Expectation _____.
  4. Social System _____.
  5. Personality _____.
  6. Need- Disposition _____.
  7. Institution _____.
  8. Observed Behavior _____.

G. Match the following sources of authority with the characteristics listed below:

A. Bureaucratic, B. Personal, C. Technical-rational, D. Professional, E. Moral

  1. Derives authority from interpersonal skills _____.
  2. Assumes teachers are subordinates that can’t be trusted _____.
  3. Assumes supervision and teaching are applied sciences _____.
  4. What is right and good is as important as what works and is effective _____.
  5. Personal expertise and informed knowledge of craft _____.

H. Please answer the following:

48. Matching leadership style to the situation in order to achieve the behavior on the part of subordinates to contribute most to achieving the organization’s goals.

  1. Role Theory
  2. Organizational Theory
  3. Transformation Theory
  4. Contingency Theory
  1. Define Lewin’s formula B = f(p · e). Behavior is a function of the interaction between
  1. Personnel and Evaluation
  2. Personality and Education
  3. Person and Environment
  4. Poverty and Education
  5. People and Evolution
  1. NCLB is the result of the dissatisfaction of schools leading to which of the following management styles:
  1. Scientific
  2. Human Relations
  3. Neo-Scientific
  4. Human Development
  5. Bureaucratic

51. According to Hetrzberg, the following are ______: salary, job security, work environment

a. Motivators

b. Maintenance (hygiene) factors

c. Satisfiers

d. All of the above

52. Select the correct answer to differentiate which of the following methods of controlling behavior in an organization would be characteristic of human resources development views.

a. A reading coach is hired to supervise and help teachers since the state

and district have determined that reading is a problem in the schools.

b. When new teachers arrive there is an induction party to help them feel

at home.

c. New teachers are given a teacher handbook that includes procedures andschedules to help them understand expectations.

d. Grade level teams are assigned the task of developing plans to deal

with the goal of improving math achievement test scores.

53. From the examples below, select the one that best illustrates Chris Argyris’ idea of

Pattern A, soft behavior.

a. A supervisor meets with grade level teachers to describe the new reading series that has been adopted and to ask for additional ideas on implementation.

b. The math teachers are given the math achievement test data from last year and they are asked to devise methods to improve the scores.

c. The principal forms a faculty advisory committee to develop a school-wide discipline plan based on current research.

d. The principal meets with the food service staff to ask them to come up with better ways to more quickly move the students through the lines.

54. That there are actually 7 forms of intelligence including linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, etc. was proposed by

a. Howard Gardner

b. Jerome Bruner

c. Benjamin Bloom

d. Carl Jung

55. Describe the meaning of the following social systems theory equation: B = f(R · P).

Observed behavior is a function of an individual’s:

  1. Role and Perception
  2. Retention and Perception
  3. Role and Personality
  4. Retention and Personality

56. According to Sergiovanni, which of the following types of authority should be prime?

  1. Bureaucratic
  2. Personal
  3. Professional/Moral
  4. Technical-Rational

57. Where you want to go and how you intend to get there in your organization is an example of your:

  1. Metanarrative
  2. Paradigm
  3. Code of Ethics
  4. Vision

58. According to The Coleman Report

  1. There is a strong positive relationship between school quality and student

achievement

  1. The best predictor of school success is SES
  2. The Peer group matters the least
  3. The best predictor of school success is teacher quality

59. That schools adapt and deal effectively with changes in the environment exemplifies the maintenance of

a. Feedback

b. A closed system

c. Role consistency

d. Homeostasis

e. Teachers who use moral leadership have students who are more successful.

60. According to Maslow, if other needs were met, a teacher would be most motivated by

  1. a. Being appointed to the school management team
  2. Given a Merit Raise
  3. Being named the teacher of the year
  4. Given the best parking space

II. Essays

1. In the construct below (developed by Getzels and Guba). Compare and contrast where a teacher would fall along the A to B continuum in a school with bureaucratic (scientific) management, a school with human relations management and a school with human resources management.

2. Discuss the positive and negative consequences of bureaucratic structure and management of schools with regard to goal attainment, staff motivation, communication, etc. How can hindering structures and practices that you identified be changed to enabling.