Abstract
This article examines various theoretical viewpoints on organizations and the traits that define schools as organizations with an emphasis on the systems perspective of analysis. This paper aims to improve the understanding of the phrase “school organization” and the implications that this formula has for theory and practice. There is provided an integrative lens of school organization is provided using a multidisciplinary approach. As societies have become more complex, the approach to the analysis of organizations has required the use of multiple perspectives to provide a more complete picture of the phenomenon studied. In this paper, we analyze how organizations have evolved, what the elements that characterize school organization are, how these elements relate to each other, along with the various models of the school as an organization.
Keywords: organizations, systems perspective, organizational variables, school organization