School principals are exclusively placed to make campus-wide decisions required to lead campuses academically, provide a safe environment, and serve as chief human capital managers. The tasks can lead to an increase in school achievement outcomes and job-related stress. Emotional intelligence (EI) may allow individuals to manage and perceive the…

Purpose: In the HBO comedy series, "Vice Principals," two white men vice principals respond to the hiring of a Black woman high school principal with physical, emotional, and workplace violence. The purpose of this study was to explore (1) white men educational leaders' perceptions of a Black woman educational leader, and (2) their…

Over the past two decades, the feminisation of primary school teaching has been identified by the media and government officials in Western countries as an important contributing factor to boys' academic problems. This panic, which has been criticised by feminists as a backlash and a form of recuperative politics, has promoted the development of…

Reports on a broad-scale leadership and gender study, based on research on 400 principals in Victoria, Australia, between 1996-99. Although findings confirm previous claims concerning significant differences in female and male leaders' perceptions and beliefs, they acknowledge the importance of organizational cultures, value systems, and same-sex…

The Type A disease association may be obscured by the failure of epidemiological studies to take into account the person by situation nature of the Type A construct. Past research suggests that it is not coping with demand that is stressful for Type As, but rather the perception that the job or life event is less than completely controllable that…