In educational settings, leadership flexibility and mobility is essential factor for leadership readiness. This incorporates both factors concerning the situational needs and followership situational readiness. Leadership in education require multi facet dimensional approaches that enables the educational leaders to fill in the gaps and reduces…

Student discussion-group leaders were assessed on indices of facilitative empathy, respect, and genuineness, and their behaviors were analysed by Flanders' interaction categories. None of the leaders reached minimally helpful levels of the facilitative conditions, and only two out of five could be categorized as "indirect" leaders. (Author/JA)

PRESIDENTS, DEPARTMENT HEADS, AND STUDENT LEADERS FROM 20 PUBLIC 2-YEAR COLLEGES FILLED OUT A QUESTIONNAIRE WHICH INDICATED THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF AND EXPECTATIONS FOR THE LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR OF THEIR DEANS. THE DEANS THEMSELVES DESCRIBED WHAT THEY THOUGHT TO BE THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR. THE LEADER BEHAVIOR DESCRIPTION QUESTIONNAIRE DEVELOPED BY THE…

Leadership has a profound impact through its style. The dimensions of leadership behavior in academe communicate more about a leader than most pronouncements of opinion. Those dimensions include the directing of attention, use of language, attitudes, and personal demeanor. (MSE)

To assess effective school leadership behavior and enhance staff development programs, the DeKalb County, Georgia, School District developed the Profile for Assessment of Leaders (PAL), which contains eight generic competency areas and uses low-inference data obtained by supervisors, subordinates, and administrators being evaluated. Preliminary…

An administrator playing the dual role of educational leader and personnel manager holds the key to successful change and innovation within the school setting. How he functions in relation to personnel and knowledge will determine the kinds and degree of change and innovation that will transpire in his school. (CK)

PART I REPLICATED RESEARCH CONCERNING TEACHER ATTITUDES TOWARD ADMINISTRATORS. PREVIOUS FINDINGS INDICATED TEACHERS IN SMALL SCHOOL SYSTEMS HAD A STRONGER SENSE OF SUPERINTENDENT LEADERSHIP THAN DID TEACHERS IN LARGE SCHOOL SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, SUPERINTENDENTS RESPONDED WITH OPPOSITE PERCEPTION IN SELF-ANALYSIS TESTS. THE REPLICATION RECOMMENDED THAT…

Study indicates democratic leadership style produces highest productivity; data is tabulated. (Editor/SP)

A survey soliciting school board members' and administrators' views on effective and ineffective board behaviors showed that both groups valued board members' ability to distinguish between policy and administration, willingness to ensure policy recommendation opportunities for superintendents, insistence on policies sensitive to broad public…

"Feedback to Managers" is a two-volume report. Volume 1 presents a simple but comprehensive process for evaluating instruments designed to compare self-views to the views of others on multiple domains of managerial behavior. Sixteen steps in evaluating a multiple-perspective feedback questionnaire intended for management development are…

In attempting to isolate the characteristics of leaders which impede creativity, the author reviews research on the personality traits and behavioral manifestations of leadership, with particular consideration given to environmental, socioeconomic, and situational factors. (SBH)

Focus is on kinds of women leaders that emerge, styles of leadership utilized by women in contrast to those utilized by men, and effects these kinds of leadership have on group behavior. Presented at the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., September 1976. (Author)