Chapter 2 of a volume on school leadership, this chapter examines the ethnic background and sex of educational leaders, concluding that, even after decades of civil rights and feminist activities, nearly all educational administrators are white males. The authors make a case for the value of diversity in educational leadership, then present their…

A survey of 47 Pennsylvania school districts examined the traits of deference and authoritarianism among educators and investigated the relationship between these two psychological qualities and school administrative promotion. Questionnaires returned by 493 school administrators and teachers measured each respondent's degrees of authoritarianism…

According to developmental psychology, human development occurs in an identifiable sequence of stages. Appropriate experiences at each stage make development smoother and more rapid. Leadership can be roughly defined as the ability to structure events in a way that will take best advantage of developmental patterns. Members of organizations are…

FROM A NATIONAL CROSS-SECTION OF 382 MALE PRINCIPALS IN AMERICAN CITIES WITH A 1960-1961 POPULATION OF 50,000 OR OVER, INTERVIEW AND RELATED DATA WERE OBTAINED TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE DETERMINANTS OF IJS OR INTRINSIC JOB SATISFACTION (DEGREE OF GRATIFICATION DERIVED FROM PERFORMING MANAGERIAL TASKS) AND CS OR CAREER SATISFACTION (DEGREE OF…

FROM THE QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE DATA OF A 1964 SURVEY REPRESENTING A 56-PERCENT RETURN OF ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN ILLINOIS, 70 TABLES WERE DEVELOPED TO DEFINE THE PRINCIPAL'S ROLE AND STATUS IN RELATIONSHIP TO CURRENT PRACTICES AND EMERGING TRENDS IN THE ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. QUESTIONNAIRE CATEGORIES…

During the fall of 1979, PROBE (Practical Research into Organizational Behavior and Effectiveness), an independent research organization, undertook a survey of public school district superintendents to elicit their views on education in areas parallel to those expressed in the annual Gallup Poll of the public's attitude toward the schools. A…

This document summarizes a dissertation based on a nationwide survey probing certain characteristics of the directors of library-learning centers in public comprehensive community colleges. Of the 586 current directors in non-university related institutions, 79.4 percent responded. Nearly all reported strong job satisfaction. Within the hierarchy,…

This survey of the extent to which each state is supporting kindergarten and other early childhood services consists of three tables showing: (1) state-by-state expenditures (total and per pupil) for kindergarten and prekindergarten, other state-supported services (medical, dental, etc.) to prefirst graders; information on kindergarten entrance…

Patterns of organization and management of Asian universities are discussed against the backdrop of the current situation of Asian universities generally. They are seeking to better address society's problems and to attain goals of national development more directly. If universities are to accomplish these tasks, given the scarce resources…

During the summer of 1974 16 students, all experienced teachers, devised an opinionnaire scale concerning the elementary school teacher attitudes toward the elementary school principal. Each investigator conducted interviews, either by telephone or in person, with 25 experienced elementary teachers from several Texas Panhandle districts. The…

This study identifies the personal, professional, and job-related characteristics of deans of schools, colleges, and departments of education. The study was organized to identify and describe: (1) personal characteristics of current deans; (2) professional background characteristics; (3) current professional activity data regarding practicing…

Personnel decisions in complex organizations must be made with no final guide other than one's own subjective pattern of person perceptions. From a series of studies an attempt is made to extricate from school principals the perceptual structures that appear to have guided their personnel decisions. The characteristics that they attribute to…

In two parts, this book first defines the evaluation of elementary school principals as having two major phases, job performance and professional growth. The job performance phase establishes minimum requirements and indicates level of attainment. The professional growth phase assists principals who meet minimum requirements to become more…

This research was conducted to discover school administrators' methods of searching for and processing information needed in decisionmaking, and to determine whether this decision is affected by cost and risk factors in the decision situation. A teacher selection process was simulated, with two independent variables (the cost of information…

The major part of this report consists of a summary of the replies to a questionnaire administered to 1,270 elementary school assistant principals, with relatively few interpretations and conclusions. The final chapter raises questions about the status of assistant principals and suggests some possible future developments. Topics covered include…