The role of the principal has been emasculated by the organizational structure of most school systems. Drastic reform is necessary to restore the potential of the principal's role - leadership. (AN)

If correctly channeled, three vices - forgetfulness, fearfulness and sloth - can become valuable administrative virtues. (Editor)

Author examines the growing bel9ef in the utility of the humanities for providing the knowledge and skills demanded of the contemporary educational administrator. (Author/LF)

How companies can respond to the needs of those entering corporate life or moving up the management ladder. (Author)

Uses results from a 1980 cross-Canada survey to develop a chart of administrator characteristics. Provides insights on being a good principal in terms of thinking, feelings and interrelationships, outward behavior characteristics, and implementing change. (AH)

Adult learning is a potentially productive way of identifying the motives and behaviors of effective management. Learning is a distinguishing characteristic of the most effective managers and steps can be taken to enhance managers' abilities in learning how to learn. (JOW)

Presents four essential characteristics of good conduct for school board members: patience, tolerance, readiness to consider advice from outsiders, and humor. (Author/JM)

Describes seven things the author would do, were he chairing an English department, to solve some of the problems that go with the post. (DD)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the "real" and "ideal" leadership behavior of school business managers as perceived by board members, superintendents, business managers, and principals-supervisors in 11 Ohio school districts. (Author/SJL)

By utilizing assessment centers, the competencies of educational administrators can be measured before hiring or promotion. (Author/JM)

Notes that the few women who attain the heights in school management typically come from the ranks of classroom teachers, university instructors, curriculum directors, or specialties such as counseling, research, communications, or learning disabilities. (Author)

The 50 black superintendents in the nation constitute just over one-fourth of one percent of the 16,000 school superintendents. (AM)

Two managers described as high performing constructed complexity maps of their organization/world. The maps suggested that high performance is socially constructed and negotiated in specific contexts and management competencies associated with it are context specific. Development of high performers thus requires personalized coaching more than…