2019
DOI: 10.1108/ijem-07-2017-0181
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A study into “organisational readiness” and its impacts on school improvement

Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare measures of socio-economic status (Index of Community Socio-educational Advantage values (ICSEA)), school performance, school funding and school readiness in terms of their impact on student performance. In this respect, the paper tests the proposition – given research that suggests the teacher is the important ingredient in improved student learning performance – that a school principal who has strategical worked to “ready” their teachers for a whole of school t… Show more

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“…for principals) as we conceived it. There was literature from the perspective of the employees, and their understanding of leadership; and the impact of the organisation's structure and context in relation to leadership (Caldwell, 2013; Holt et al , 2007; Holt and Vardaman, 2013); and plenty on organisational and change readiness literature (Armenakis and Harris, 2009; Fitzgerald, 2015; Jones et al , 2005; Lynch et al , 2019). But we could not locate literature on what a leader might know, value or be able demonstrate to indicate whether he or she was ready to lead change and reform in their school.…”
Section: Literature On Leadership and Principal Readinessmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…for principals) as we conceived it. There was literature from the perspective of the employees, and their understanding of leadership; and the impact of the organisation's structure and context in relation to leadership (Caldwell, 2013; Holt et al , 2007; Holt and Vardaman, 2013); and plenty on organisational and change readiness literature (Armenakis and Harris, 2009; Fitzgerald, 2015; Jones et al , 2005; Lynch et al , 2019). But we could not locate literature on what a leader might know, value or be able demonstrate to indicate whether he or she was ready to lead change and reform in their school.…”
Section: Literature On Leadership and Principal Readinessmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When readiness for leadership and change does appear in the literature (Holt et al , 2007) it focuses on the organisation ' s readiness for change – i.e. the staff and their beliefs about the proposed change and the way that influences organisational change (Jones et al , 2005; Lehman et al , 2002; Lynch et al , 2019; Lyons et al , 2009); or how the organisation's structure or context enables or constrains change; or how individuals within the organisation perceive the impending change (Holt and Vardaman, 2013; Zimmerman, 2006). We wondered why we could find so little written on principals' conceptions of their own readiness to lead a significant change process.…”
Section: Literature On Leadership and Principal Readinessmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our use of the ACE model is part of ongoing research on the part of the authors, in terms of investigating ways to frame specific practices and strategies employed by Principals to promote readiness in their schools Lynch et al, 2019). In this respect, our application of the ACE model is echoed by Macklin and Zbar (2017), who argue that school improvement, and therefore student learning outcomes, "stands or falls on school leadership and what it does" (p. xx).…”
Section: Transformational Leadership: the Ace Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our use of the ACE model is part of ongoing research on the part of the authors, in terms of investigating ways to frame specific practices and strategies employed by Principals to promote readiness in their schools (Yeigh & Lynch, 2019;Lynch et al, 2019). In this respect, our application of the ACE model is echoed by Macklin and Zbar (2017), who argue that school improvement, and therefore student learning outcomes, "stands or falls on school leadership and what it does" (p. xx).…”
Section: Transformational Leadership: the Ace Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%