Question 1:
a) Examine the concept ‘flexible organizations’ with respect to information flows and decision-making.
b) Analyze the manners in which the right structure in an organization is the one that best fits the needs of the condition.
c) How far efficient organizations comprise the right culture?
Question 2:
a) Describe the term modeling as applied in the educational administration.
b) With illustrations to describe, analyze how far policy-making is conditioned by the environment and ‘policy invariably builds on policy’ (Hugh Heclo, 1974).
c) Examine critically the Mainstream or Commonsense Model (Clay and Schaffer, 1984).
Question 3: Observe the importance of decentralization of activities and ‘flatteners’ (Thomas Friedman, 2006) in the education sector. Validate your arguments with illustrations and consider its suitability for policy decisions.
Question 4:
a) Describe how far the educational administrator will be affected by the changing strategy-implementing tasks resultant from globalization.
b) With examples to explain, observe the possible scenarios emerging from the information age, the knowledge society and service economy.
Question 5:
a) Describe how far information technologies improve informal networks. Explain your answer with illustrations.
b) Peter Drucker observed that an organization is similar to ‘an orchestra’ which permits ‘both great flexibility and considerable diversity’. Examine this statement and validate your arguments with illustrations.