Working on Your Game Plan. This chapter described two different approaches to understanding organizations and behavior. One is from the classical perspective

(organizations are characteristically hierarchical and bureaucratic), and the other is from the human relations perspective (organizations are characteristically collegial and collaborative). In our present era of school reform, both of these perspectives are alive and well and competing for your attention and your allegiance as a leader. Write a paragraph for your game plan about exercising leadership in schools. Express your thoughts and present commitment on two issues:

• What ideas from these two perspectives on organization and human behavior do you find most useful in analyzing the problems of being a leader in schools? How would you translate those ideas into things that you do (or how you would do them) as a leader on the job?

• What connection do you perceive between the ideas that you discussed and present-day human problems in the schools (such as motivation, student achievement, or morale)?