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  title info:
    title: Continuous improvement in the Leander ISD
    sub title: a quantitative and qualitative assessment of culture and core values
  name:
    name part: Robinson, Joe E.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Cole, Bryan R.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Many of today's schools are caught at the center of a perfect storm fueled by the pressures from a more demanding public, increased governmental accountability, warring political factions, shrinking resources, and new technologies and methodologies. Proponents of Quality Management/Continuous Improvement (QM/CI) have championed the philosophy for over two decades as a solution for addressing these kinds of pressures and systems problems. Unfortunately, QM/CI theory remains underdeveloped and subsequently often fails to align with or guide practice. Detert, Louis, and Schroeder propose that QM/CI theory is best explored through the organizational culture framework that borrows heavily from the work of Edgar Schein. According to Schein, organizational culture exists at the multiple levels of espoused values, material artifacts and creations, and underlying assumptions (deeply held organizational values that guide the norms of behavior). Detert and colleagues contend that there are "nine" core values that define the efficacy of QM/CI in school cultures. To assess the viability of these values, as lived out in the Leander ISD, Leander, Texas, the study employed both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and was both confirmatory and exploratory in research intent. The Nine Core Values were examined through surveys, purposefully selected interviews, a review of the quality literature, on-site observations, and school documents, with the results triangulated to derive the findings and conclusions. Deeply and widely held values should be observable throughout the multiple levels of culture, expressed through espoused values, material artifacts and creations, and practices that reflect the norms of behavior. The findings and conclusions suggest that the first eight of the Nine Core Values are lived out in the Leander ISD as identifiable norms of behavior: shared vision, outside stakeholder involvement in educational decision-making, long term commitment, cont…
  note: by Joe E. Robinson.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Administration"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-11-01 09:04:20).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8209
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major educational administration
  subject:
    topic: Education and Quality Management
  subject:
    topic: Quality Management in Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Culture and Core Values
  subject:
    topic: Educational Culture and Quality
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8209
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 111115
    record change date: 20151202144303.0
    record identifier: in00002718369