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Schwabsky, Nitza – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the motives, opportunities, and threats associated with the adoption of market-driven externally developed reforms (EDRs) as well as how these motivator factors, combined with background variables, account for school principals' satisfaction with EDR adoption. Design/methodology/approach: Principals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas)
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Bogler, Ronit; Nir, Adam E. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
The current study aims at exploring the common means that may improve organizational effectiveness by focusing on two main facets of organizational qualities: teacher commitment and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 841 randomly sampled teachers employed in 118 elementary schools in Israel. A quantitative questionnaire, which included…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Elementary School Teachers, Predictor Variables, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Hameiri, Lior; Nir, Adam; Inbar, Dan E. – Planning and Changing, 2014
The purpose of this study is to assess to what extent public school principals experience role uncertainty and risk on the job and to examine the joint effect of school principals' leadership style and use of power bases on school outcomes, under perceived role uncertainty and role risk. Questionnaires were administrated to 191 school principals…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Outcomes of Education, School Effectiveness, Socioeconomic Status
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Addi-Raccah, Audrey – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Background: Women school leaders may act as social agents who promote gender equality, but evidence is inconclusive regarding the effect of women's leadership on gender stratification in the workplace. Purpose: Based on the similarity-attraction perspective, this study examined male and female school leaders' relations to similar others in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Females, Women Administrators
Ben-Peretz, Miriam; Avi-Itzhak, Tamar E. – 1985
Sixty-nine Israeli school principals completed questionnaires designed to reveal the factors contributing to the leadership styles they used when initiating curricular changes. The principals fell into three leadership categories: "Initiators," who seek change in accordance with long range policies and goals; "Responders," who…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Friedman, Isaac A. – 1997
Taxing situations that threaten the administrator's sense of self-efficacy meaningfully account for burnout in human-service professionals. This paper presents findings of a study that hypothesized that environmental or role stressors could be classified as task, organization, and relations stressors, each pertaining to a different domain of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Burnout, Coping