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Direct linkSahin, Fatih; Tabak, Hasan – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: This research aims to determine the humour behaviours of school administrators according to teacher perception and to reveal the relationship between humour behaviours and school climate. Methods: The research was carried out in a survey model. The data of the study were obtained from 221 primary school teachers working in Ankara and…
Descriptors: Administrators, School Administration, Humor, Educational Environment
Batt-Rawden, Victoria H.; Traavik, Laura E. M. – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore what contributes to egalitarian teams and facilitates for team learning in professional service teams. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study, including 41 in-depth interviews (n = 18) of professional service team members and managers in one of Nordics largest professional service…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Generational Differences, Humor, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedNilsen, Alleen Pace – Initiatives, 1994
Assistant vice president for academic personnel at public university took notes on incidents that caused participants to laugh during meetings of academic managers between 1988 and 1993. Recorded percentages of males and females in attendance, who conducted meeting, and who initiated laughter. Found differences in how men and women used humor to…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Employed Women, Higher Education
Peer reviewedScott, James Calvert; Broussine, Michael P.; Davies, Fred – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2001
Managers in English social services agencies (n=10) identified themes related to their use of humor in social care settings: asserting invulnerability; coping with reality; controlling anxiety; working with ambiguity, paradox, and incongruity; resisting the dominant order; and making sense of organizational absurdities. Implications for business…
Descriptors: Administrators, Anxiety, Community Organizations, Coping
Peer reviewedLudewig, Larry M. – NASPA Journal, 1983
Presents a tongue-in-cheek system for classifying educational administrators into four categories (Artful Dodger, Commander in Chief, Leader of the Pack, and Facilitating Master) according to leadership style and administrator characteristics. A brief sampler survey is included. (JAC)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Classification, Educational Administration
Peer reviewedZiegler, Virginia; And Others – Clearing House, 1985
Uses research findings to show when educational leaders can use humor to increase their effectiveness and how they can use it more effectively. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrators, Classroom Communication, Educational Environment, Educational Research
