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Miller, Dustin; Tilak, Shantanu; Evans, Marvin; Glassman, Michael – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: School leaders work in a fast-paced job that requires critical decision-making, often without the luxury of time. Additionally, problems may be new and leave school leaders feeling isolated and ill-equipped to adequately address situations. To that end, this study introduced the use of Reddit, a social media platform, to connect school…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Support Groups, Principals, Administrators
Susan Sajadi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adaptability has emerged as an essential skill in the engineering workforce due to constant technological and social change, engineering grand challenges, and the recent global pandemic. Although engineering employers and national reports have called for increased adaptability among engineers, what adaptability means in the engineering workplace…
Descriptors: Engineering, Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Attitudes, Corporations
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Bøe, Marit; Kristiansen, Elsa; Rydjord Tholin, Kristin – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
The aim of this article is to investigate how case method can promote leadership learning and coping with stress. An exploratory qualitative investigation was undertaken to study 57 early childhood education centre directors' course evaluations from the National Leadership Program through an online survey done between 2020 and 2021. With respect…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Coping, Stress Variables, Communities of Practice
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Jung, Jisun; Shin, Jung Cheol – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of administrative staff's job competency on their job satisfaction in a Korean research university. We conceptualized job satisfaction into three subcomponents: satisfaction in the job field, in the workplace, and with the actual task. In the regression analysis, we included demographics, inner…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Satisfaction, Interpersonal Competence, Problem Solving
Lamb, Cathy – Learning, 1995
Presents suggestions to help teachers who must work with difficult principals, offering 10 ideas for how to make meetings with such principals more effective. The paper also notes what to do if the principal is unreachable and describes how four teachers handled their own problems with difficult principals. (SM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Secondary Education
Alford, Betty J., Ed.; Perreault, George, Ed.; Zellner, Luana, Ed.; Ballenger, Julia W., Ed. – NCPEA Publications, 2011
This is the 2011 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This Yearbook contains five parts. Part I, Invited Chapters, includes: (1) NCPEA President's Message, 2011 (Gary W. Kinsey); (2) Shadows and Images II (Lloyd Duvall); and (3) Micropolitics in the School: Teacher Leaders' Use of Political Skill…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, College Faculty, Professional Associations, Yearbooks
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Henkin, Alan B.; And Others – Journal of Research in Education, 1991
Describes perceptions of conflict as a utility (functional conflict) among 1,953 department executives in programs of social work, education, and nursing (the emergent professions); and analyzes perceptual data in terms of organizational conflict climate and demographics. Variations in terms of perceived operational utility of organizational…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Dumaresq, Richard R.; Blust, Ross S. – 1984
Examining the effectiveness of an organizational development plan, this study notes the changes in school climate in two Pennsylvania schools--a junior high and a middle school. Having selected the schools for their troubled educational environments, the authors gathered data for 2 years from interviews with students and staff, from a formal…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Decision Making Skills, Educational Environment