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Direct linkNeil Gilbride; Chris James; Sam Carr – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
In this article, we analyse the ways school headteachers/principals (HT/Ps) at different stages of adult ego development (AED) make sense of and respond to the organisational complexity of their schools. The AED stage of 20 HT/Ps in England was assessed using the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. HT/Ps in the self-aware,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Individual Development, Self Concept
Norman, Jean M. – 1988
This study investigated secondary teachers' perceptions of school organizational climate relative to their own professional growth and development attitudes. Instrumentation consisted of the "School Climate Profile," chosen for its range of determinants of school organizational climate in the secondary school, and a Likert scaling procedure to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Institutional Environment, Organizational Climate
Loose-Coupled Responses to External Constraints: An Analysis of Public Educators' Coping Strategies.
Peer reviewedLam, Y. L. Jack – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1997
Examines superintendents', principals', and teachers' coping strategies for dealing with externally imposed problems or disruptive change in four Manitoba school divisions. Identifies seven major coping strategies and analyzes them in terms of strategic choice theory versus environmental determinist theory. Contains 30 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Coping, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The Trouble Shooting Checklist-A (TSC-A) is a predictive instrument to aid the educational change agent in defining variables within institutions or organizations which are concerned with adopting modules in deciding whether or not an institution is suited for a particular innovation. These five dimensions comprise the major scales: Organization…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents
Download full textManning, Brad A. – 1974
The Trouble-Shooting Checklist (TSC) is an empirically-developed, descriptive instrument which is based on the responses of six educational change agents. It enables an agent to predict a given institution's success in adopting innovations by ordering its levels of concerns and innovation usage. It focuses on two types of innovation:…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The first section of this manual contains a selective review of organizational change literature which focuses on predictive institutional variables as they affect the adoption-diffusion process. The second section describes the development of the Trouble Shooting Checklist (TSC). The third section presents two Trouble Shooting Checklists (TSC-A…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
