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Moos, Lejf – School Leadership & Management, 2011
There is no shared understanding of what school leaders are expected to do. Schools have many external as well as internal stakeholders and each of them has different expectations as to leadership practice. Thus school leadership is a "fluid signifier". This article first outlines external expectations that school leaders are faced with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Work Environment, Job Performance
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Schneider, Luise; Romberg, Claudia – Performance Improvement, 2011
Cultural awareness training that emphasizes communication delivers only a partial solution to the challenges that intercultural work teams face. Improving collaboration requires a strong foundation of performance management before a work team can determine how they will cooperate to perform to excellence. Against the backdrop of the authors'…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Quality of Life, Differences, Work Environment
Cornelius, Dave – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
It is like trying to fit a triangular peg into a round hole while both the hole and the peg continually change shape and size. Sound a little crazy? That is just what industry thinks about the current global "one-size-fits-all" concept of education. The perception from business, government and education leaders of 50 nations at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attitudes, Occupational Mobility, Migration
Education Development Center, Inc., 2009
The world outside schools is changing rapidly with the advances of technology and economic requirements for a 21st-century global citizenry. Today, technology has moved into one's everyday life and is becoming a pervasive part of how one works, learns, and plays. Similarly, networked communications and computer technology have transformed the…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Quality of Life, Work Environment, Productivity
Clarke, Dominic, Ed.; Russell, Russ, Ed. – 1983
A party of vocational educators from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe the nature and scope of vocational counseling and guidance in that country. During their study, the observers focused their attention on the problems of the transition from school to working life; arbeitslehre, or education…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Coordination