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Scallan, Patricia Clark – Child Care Information Exchange, 1986
Presents time management techniques that child care directors can use in learning to control "time bandits," those external (circumstances and expectations of others) and internal (personal work attitudes and behaviors) factors that take away focused attention from planned priorities and personal productivity. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Day Care
Peer reviewedLam, Y. L. Jack – Education, 1984
Proposes a 12-celled typology consisting of four stress types (role-based, task-based, boundary-spanning, and conflict-mediating) and three stress sources (extra-organizational, intra-organizational, and intrapersonal). Describes in detail the nature of each cell. Suggests this typology can help synthesize the findings of studies in organization…
Descriptors: Administrators, Classification, Definitions, Job Satisfaction
Mackenzie, R. Alec – School Business Affairs, 1985
Suggests some solutions to administrators' cluttered desk problems and offers guidelines for a planning and organizing system. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Herlihy, John J. – School Business Affairs, 1996
School administrators today must learn on the job and develop new skills while providing instructional leadership every day. Leaders must accept and adapt new theories and allow themselves to grow. Ultimately, it is the school leaders' responsibility to match skills to the needs of every student. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Education Work Relationship, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Moore, R. Keith – Currents, 1988
Clout, or the authority invoked in certain situations, is discussed as it pertains to public relations officers. Five ways to cultivate the president are presented and some effective power plays are described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty, Higher Education
Creswell, John W.; And Others – 1990
This book champions the importance of chairing an academic department (or division) and focuses attention on the strategies "excellent" chairs use in building a positive work environment for faculty and releasing individual faculty potential. The framework is based on human, organizational, and career development; systems theory; and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators, College Administration
Carter, Margie; Curtis, Deb – 1998
Written for child care center directors, this book offers a framework for thinking about and organizing the director's work along with principles and strategies to cultivate the kind of thinking and activities that support a vision of early childhood programs as learning communities. Chapter 1, "Guiding Your Program with a Vision," offers a vision…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Day Care
Cleveland Association for the Education of Young Children, OH. – 1988
This report presents findings of a 1988 survey of the salaries, benefits, and working conditions of early childhood personnel employed at day care centers in the Cleveland, Ohio area. It is emphasized that the salary survey describes what is and not what should be. The report is organized into three major sections. The first section covers…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Caregivers, Community Surveys, Cooperative Programs
Kaiser, Barbara; Rasminsky, Judy Sklar – 1999
Partners in Quality is a research and development project sponsored by the Canadian Child Care Federation and its affiliates to explore how child care providers, parents, and other partners can work together to support and improve quality in child care. This booklet, in both English and French, is the third in a series to support child care…
Descriptors: Administrators, Advocacy, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Doherty, Gillian – 2000
Partners in Quality is a research and development project sponsored by the Canadian Child Care Federation and its affiliates to explore how child care providers, parents, and other partners can work together to support and improve quality in child care. This booklet, in both English and French, supplements a series to support child care providers…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrators, Child Care, Educational Equipment
Peer reviewedJackson, Richard A.; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1993
A survey of 429 pharmacy school faculty found significant differences in level of burnout in relation to gender, age, academic rank, tenure status, length of contract, administrative/nonadministrative position, salary, major work activity, professional association activity, hours worked per week, and marital status. No influence of discipline,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Age Differences
Heneman, Robert L., Ed.; Greenberger, David B., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 14 papers on human resources (HR) and human resource management (HRM) in virtual organizations. The following papers are included: "Series Preface" (Rodger Griffeth); "Volume Preface" (Robert L. Heneman, David B. Greenberger); "The Virtual Organization: Definition, Description, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Learning
