Bolman And Deal Summary

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Because growth in education is needed to decentralize educational organizations, Bolman and Deal assert that culture and change would present positive structure and restructuring of the educational landscape. Initiatives to restructure, reframe or redesign education have influenced what happens in the workplace. Bolman and Deal assert that the reframing of organizations are an appropriate structure to culture; thus it is one of the best suited to maximize people’s performance (http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/leadership_development). In Chapter 4, Bolman and Deal explore structural tensions that tend to attack most organizations as they attempt to restructure. The authors noticed that the central ideas of restructuring

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