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Adams, William F.; Bailey, Gerald D. – Performance and Instruction, 1989
Discusses leadership behavior of managers and presents a model for leadership choice that dichotomizes bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic leadership behaviors. The power of managers is described in terms of both position status and personal influence, and the relationship between the manager's role and the needs of employees is discussed. (LRW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Employee Attitudes, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Styles

Niedermeyer, Fred C. – Elementary School Journal, 1977
Defines an outcomes-based instructional supervision model and reports on the testing of such a model in an outcomes-based classroom-verified instructional reading program, involving 99 kindergartens in 36 elementary schools. (BF/JH)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Course Evaluation, Course Objectives, Instructional Improvement

Reinhartz, Judy; Beach, Don M. – Clearing House, 1987
Describes the salient attributes of adult cognitive functioning and supervisory styles and integrates them within the systems of developmental and clinical supervision to create an individualized professional development plan. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cognitive Structures, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Hunt, J. G.; And Others – 1981
This report describes efforts to test a model of leadership effectiveness that centers on "macro variables" and "discretionary leadership." Macro variables were represented by the complexity of the environment, context, and structure of a unit. Discretionary leadership was defined as influence over and above that typically…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Employer Employee Relationship, Leadership Styles, Models
Mitchell, Terence R. – 1981
This report consists of two main sections. The first presents a theory about how supervisors decide on the causes of a subordinate's poor performance and what they do about it. A two-stage process is suggested. The first stage involves the supervisor making attributions about the causes of the poor performance. This stage requires processing an…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Discipline, Employer Employee Relationship, Leadership Responsibility
Strein, William – 1982
This paper explores a model of self-supervision for professional school psychologists which maximizes the amount of supervisory resources available. The history and current status of supervision in school psychology is reviewed. One model of self-supervision for professional school psychologists, the supervisory pool concept, is described and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Human Resources, Models, Peer Relationship
Zadnik, David – 1992
This document reviews the attributes of instructional effectiveness and supervisory practices in special education and examines the extent to which these attributes and practices are used as criterion measures for supervising instruction. The document prescribes and recommends exemplary practices that supervisors in special education ought to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Observation Techniques, Disabilities, Educational Practices
De Witt, Kilby A. – 1981
Literature is reviewed and research is proposed on the supervision of teaching. The literature review on administrative theory in business and education reveals three periods of thought: a period when theories of supervision focused on the producer (the worker or teacher), a period when theories focused on the supervisor-producer relationship, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2002
This manual combines best practices for involvement of supervisors and counterparts in programming, training, and volunteer activities from the three regions of the Peace Corps. Its intent is to offer ideas for participatory development to supplement the work being done with partners at posts. It is designed to help associate Peace Corps directors…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Adult Education
1999
This document contains four symposium papers on managers, learning, and human resource development (HRD). "Expatriate Managers and HRD: The Missing Link" (Teresa M. Palmer, Iris I. Varner) reviews the literature on selection, training, retention, and organizational strategy related to expatriate assignments and presents a model that ties…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Adult Education, Critical Thinking