Comprehensive Exam Govst Flashcards
What is Collective Bargaining?
The process through which a labor union/organization/association and an employer negotiate the scope of the employment relationship.
What is paradigm?
A way of thinking; a system of beliefs that exists within a larger ideological context (major change causes conflict).
What is scientific management?
a top-down hierarchical relationship between managers and workers.
What are the principals of scientific management?
- Adopt specific measurements to break tasks down into small parts for each worker.
- Train workers for specific jobs, by choosing them scientifically and systematically for specific roles.
- Establish a clear division of responsibility between management and workers.
- Management should be laying the framework for tasks, while workers execute them.
- Establish an environment in which management sets objectives and workers achieve them.
Classical organization theory
View organization rather than the individual worker as the focus of attention. Motivation is seen as important, and money is not the only motivator. Ideals, values, beliefs and the need for personal satisfaction are taken into account when understanding organization.
Human Relations Movement/Human Resource Development
This is the interaction between people in all kinds of situations in which they seek, through mutual action, to achieve some purpose. The interactions may be formal or informal.
Systems Theory
This is the idea that organizations, groups and individuals are all interdependent. Effective communication affords everyone within the organization to work together efficiently for a common cause.
organizational culture/climate
the characteristics of the total environment. Culture is what determines the norms that inform people about what is acceptable and what is not. The “rules” must be followed in order for people to be accepted.
Behavioral Psychology
A focus on the study of observations of behavior, without regard to possible inner factors that influence behaviors
Cognitive Psychology
A paradigm based in the belief that many factors produce human behaviors/learning abilities
Social Psychology
Interpretation of behavior as arising from an interaction between two factors 1) the distinctive personality characteristics of the individual and 2) the distinctive social characteristics of the group of the organization in which the behavior action occurs.
Theory of Practice
Described as a composite of theories of action that underlie and give direction to one’s professional practice. A theory of practice is one’s personal understanding of causal relationships. It arises from the processes of gathering, organizing, and integrating facts and experiences that one has encountered.
Social systems theory
Conceptualizes organizational behavior as a function of the interaction between the demands of organizational requirements and the needs-dispositions of individuals in the organization.
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The Field Theory of human behavior
Behavior is a function of a person in context of their environment/institution
Principles of Bureaucratic Organizations
- Maintain firm hierarchical control of authority and close supervision of those in lower tanks.
- Establish and maintain adequate vertical communication.
- Develop clear written rules and procedures to set standards and guide actions.
- Promulgate clear plans and schedules for participants to follow.
- Add supervisory and administrative positions to the hierarchy of the organization as necessary to meet the problems that arise from changing conditions confronted by the organization.
Effective Schools Research
- Whatever else a school can and should do, its central purpose is to teach.
- The school is responsible for providing the overall environment in which teaching and learning to occur.
- Schools must be treated holistically
- The most crucial characteristics of a school are the attitudes and behaviors of teachers and other staff, not material things.
- The school accepts responsibility for the success or failure of the academic performance of the students.
What is School community relations?
A function on all levels of a school system, established as a program to improve and maintain optimal levels of student achievement, and to build and maintain public support.
Why is school community relations important?
Education must be viewed in terms of a school-community setting, which includes students and teachers, administrator and support staff, board members, parents and other citizens. Overal goal is to improve student achievement.
Principle of utility
goods and services should be distributed according to the greatest good for the greatest number
Types of communications
newsletters, websites, email, newspaper, meetings, radio, tv
Community power groups
includes those who have social power and who exercise that power in making community decisions.
Crisis management planning (12 steps)
- Form a broad-based committee that involves all the people and agencies who might be called upon during an emergency
- Define the kind of crisis that you will include in your plan
- Conduct an internal and external assessment of the current safety level of the schools in the district.
- Create a plan
- Secure board approval of the plan
- Have the plan at your fingertips
- Distribute the plan widely
- Select the spokesperson and the crisis team leader
- Train the staff at both the district and building level
- Annually retrain the staff
- Annually revisit the plan
- Loop back to STEP 1
Understanding power structures in a community (3)
1.kanawha county; this example of pluralist power is often referred to as a battle of the books controversy the people of this region were Appalachians; they had a history of hardship and welfare. Former indenture servants that ran away to the mountains, these people developed a deep disdain for authority. Although poor nurtured and passed down the visor ride individualism. In 1974 Newbrook recommended to the school door and adopt it. This caused controversy (violence, schools where bombed) because the education values in these books are in discord with appallachians belief that it is the responsibility of adults to direct children when they misbehave. Children should not be allowed to make that their own decisions about Right and wrong.
2 Middletown: power elite study – Ball family owned a business that made canning jars the central business in the community. The first study to identify a ruling Power elite group in a community. Proved elites are very influential. 3. Yankee city and regional city – power elite studies: this study revealed (Yankee city) That those at the highest socioeconomic status in the community have the greatest power and influence. The study concluded that when there is conflict, the upper-class Will hold the upperhand. The study (regional city)concluded that the city was run by a small group of powerful men who determined policy informally and behind the scenes- the power elite. the study developed the reputational technique and used it to determine who constituted the power elite in regional city.
Community power structures (3)
- Elitist- people with considerable influence and power, also control over political and social decisions.
- Pluralist - there is no central power elite, power in a community if diffused, there are various members of a community that occupy positions of power related to specific issues.
- Amorphous or Inert Model - Power is either absent or latent - found in communities where there is little interaction among residents- lack of community - common in rural setting, high-rise condominiums, apartment building, new communities