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Thorpe, Anthony; Bennett-Powell, Gay – Management in Education, 2014
The importance of middle leaders in bringing about improvement in schools is well recognized in the UK, as in many other countries, with the ever-present demand for raising standards and achievement. This article outlines some initial findings and discussion points emerging from the first stage of a project exploring how middle leaders in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Secondary Schools, Mentors
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Moen, Frode; Federici, Roger Andre – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
The main purpose of the present study was to implement an experiment to explore the effects from coaching based leadership on goal setting, self-efficacy, and causal attribution. The study comprised of 20 executives and 124 middle managers at a branch of a Norwegian Fortune 500 company who all voluntarily participated in an experiment over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coaching (Performance), Leadership, Goal Orientation
Davis, Carl L.; Stohrer, Freda F. – 1989
To document the writing practices, opinions, and perceptions of a particular segment of professionals in the work force, a study surveyed Department of Defense middle managers working for the United States Air Force. Self-report questionnaires were completed by 234 middle managers who had completed a one-week formal in-house writing program, and…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Job Skills, Management Development, Middle Management
Stokes, M. Jean – 1984
The nature and extent of conditions or barriers that inhibit women administrators in their professional responsibilities and careers were studied. A questionnaire mailed to 241 women was completed by 168 women with executive, administrative, and managerial responsibilities in nine universities of the State University System of Florida. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Career Ladders, College Administration