ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the importance of literacy and how the elements of organization are analyzed and practiced in schools, local communities and throughout the world. It emphasizes skills that include restructuring, organizational analysis, forming and dissolving structures, aligning organizational structures to learning processes and outcomes. The chapter offers a series of reflective questions, prompts and activities to help the reader understand the personal, interpersonal and organizational consequences of their actions. Socialization involves the processes by which members of an organization learn the skills, knowledge, and dispositions required to perform their role in an effective manner. Effective recruitment and selection of school administrators continue to be one of the more challenging human resource tasks in educational organizations. The overall organization of the succession planning process should be clear outlining the organizational and support structures, timelines, events and assignments.
