In choosing an organization of which I am very familiar to discuss the three models of organizations we have discussed in class, I have decided to examine my high school due to its position within the school system, the specifics of the program core to its mission and its interaction with its locations neighboring towns.
The high school I attended was named CIBA and was a very small, non-profit, public, magnet school. The overarching organizational goal was to educate students, providing the necessary support in order for them to graduate. However, there was a specific academic focus in my school, called the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which led to a secondary goal, of almost equal importance, to have us pass our IB exams and …show more content…
The change needed bureaucratically is that, in reality, everyone needs room to adjust and adapt even if it might not be strictly what was originally planned out (Blau and Meyer). The problem with our principal was that he tried to manage in a manner inconsistent with the school’s ethos. As a result of his inability to change, he slowed change or innovation, no matter how small. Ineffective leaders need to be replaced. In a political model, students should be given increased say in the happenings at the school. While we had a Student Advisory Board (SAB) at my high school, the role was more one of planning student events than acting in an advisory one. Attempts at acting as the latter were eventually abandoned due to the lack of enthusiasm from the administration. The SAB was recognized as an empty symbol of supposed student power, which caused some resentment between the student body and the other groups, which were all adult run. The SAB should have been just that: advisory. Furthermore, from my personal experiences with inadequate principals and ineffective school boards, which stretches well before high school, I believe that the students would be happier if their teachers had a greater role in the decisions that affect their classrooms. Applying the professional-collegial model, then, if we are to accept that teachers are the experts in their area, then they should be allowed to use their experiences to initiate a better method of teaching innate to their
The high school I attended was named CIBA and was a very small, non-profit, public, magnet school. The overarching organizational goal was to educate students, providing the necessary support in order for them to graduate. However, there was a specific academic focus in my school, called the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which led to a secondary goal, of almost equal importance, to have us pass our IB exams and …show more content…
The change needed bureaucratically is that, in reality, everyone needs room to adjust and adapt even if it might not be strictly what was originally planned out (Blau and Meyer). The problem with our principal was that he tried to manage in a manner inconsistent with the school’s ethos. As a result of his inability to change, he slowed change or innovation, no matter how small. Ineffective leaders need to be replaced. In a political model, students should be given increased say in the happenings at the school. While we had a Student Advisory Board (SAB) at my high school, the role was more one of planning student events than acting in an advisory one. Attempts at acting as the latter were eventually abandoned due to the lack of enthusiasm from the administration. The SAB was recognized as an empty symbol of supposed student power, which caused some resentment between the student body and the other groups, which were all adult run. The SAB should have been just that: advisory. Furthermore, from my personal experiences with inadequate principals and ineffective school boards, which stretches well before high school, I believe that the students would be happier if their teachers had a greater role in the decisions that affect their classrooms. Applying the professional-collegial model, then, if we are to accept that teachers are the experts in their area, then they should be allowed to use their experiences to initiate a better method of teaching innate to their