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Fei Wang; Katina Pollock; Cameron Hauseman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Vice-principals' (VPs) work is intensifying in its complexity and volume but the changing nature of their work is not thoroughly documented. This article focuses on the often-overlooked VP's role and records the factors that evidence the intensifying work conditions for VPs. The data for this article come from a large-scale online survey that has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Administrator Role, Work Environment
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Clark, Jeremy Michael; Quast, Louis N.; Jang, Soebin; Wohkittel, Joseph; Center, Bruce; Edwards, Katherine; Bovornusvakool, Witsinee – European Journal of Training and Development, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore patterns of importance ratings of managerial competencies in 22 countries in different regions around the globe, to guide specificity in assessing and developing managers in multiple geographies. Additionally, this study examined the utility of clustering countries based on shared culture, as…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Competence, Management Development, Administrator Evaluation
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Schumacher, Bruce – Guidance & Counselling, 1986
Describes corrections officers' work environment and the need for guard training that includes instruction in handling the social-psychological problems of the job. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Correctional Institutions, Interpersonal Competence, Job Skills
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Dussault, Marc; Barnett, Bruce G. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1996
Presents a study that verified the effects of the peer-assisted leadership program (PAL) on communication networks and professional isolation of 41 Quebec educational managers, using a one-group pretest posttest design. Results showed that PAL significantly reduced professional isolation without widening participants' communication networks. (34…
Descriptors: Administrators, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
1999
This document contains four symposium papers on cultural issues in organizations. "Emotion Management and Organizational Functions: A Study of Action in a Not-for-Profit Organization" (Jamie Callahan Fabian) uses Hochschild's emotion systems theory and Parsons' social systems theory to explain why members of an organization managed their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, College Administration, Critical Incidents Method