ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The field of educational administration has paid only passing attention to what the book argues to be a pervasive and growing problem. In spite of its ubiquity, it is not commonly discussed or dealt with in any detail in educational administration and leadership. The book examines a number of disciplines that contribute to examine the informal organization in which many covert elements appear based on Foundational theories and critiques. The covert in organizational culture, aesthetics, and language, examines cultural and aesthetic structures and artefacts that create roles, symbols, and myths that create and sustain clandestine or hidden levels of experience. The book then examines the contributions made by psychoanalysis to unconscious processes and covert dynamics of organizational behaviour, the literature on toxic and bad leadership, and personality disorders that lead to secrecy based on the psychology of clandestine behaviour.
