Purpose: Building on arguments drawn from Upper Echelons Theory, this study provides insights into how certain demographic characteristics related to principals--gender, age, tenure, and formal education--may facilitate or hinder the adoption of three generic modes of strategic decision-making: autocratic, participative, and collaborative. Design:…

The purpose of this quantitative associative-correlational study was to determine if there is a correlation between teacher job satisfaction and distributed leadership and if that relationship is shared or different between genders. Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Gronn's (2002) and Spillane's et al. (2004) theories on distributed leadership…

Secondary school agriculture programme is meant among other benefits to prepare youth in attaining self-reliance using vocational skills gained, in the post-schooling period as they transition to adulthood. A study was done to determine reflection of out of school youth on participation in decision-making on implementation of the programme in an…

Purpose: The research investigates perceptions of teachers in the Arab education system in Israel concerning the effect of their principal's leadership and gender on their motivation. Relying on Hofstede's cultural dimensions as an analytic tool to understand the Arab school, the purpose of this paper is to answer the following research questions:…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationships between distributed leadership, teacher academic optimism and teacher organisational commitment with the contextual influence of gender and teaching experience. Design/methodology/approach: This study employed partial least squares structural equation modelling for data analysis. This study…

The purpose of this study was to move beyond understanding the theoretical definition of distributed leadership and to discern the relationship of distributed leadership within the context of social networks and work experience outcomes. In examining both distributed leadership and social networks, this study's purpose was to better understand how…

Schools in various parts of the world adopt plans or projects to improve the quality of school processes and students' learning. Therefore, it is important to understand the processes of strategic planning such as teachers' participation on decision making related to school plans. Apparently a limited number of studies have hitherto been conducted…

The South African education scene is characterised by principals who come from the apartheid era where they manage the school alone in an authoritarian manner. Old approaches to school management have changed because the society has also changed. There is a shift from top-down style of leadership to shared or distributed leadership which requires…

Leadership is no longer centred on a singular person, but task sharing through collective interactions of multiple leaders. However, previous studies have mainly focused on the effect of an individual leader on teachers' affective commitment to change. This study investigates the contextual influence of gender and teaching experience on the…

A random sample of parents of children with disabilities (n = 144) from three Swedish municipalities participated in a structured telephone interview including seven questions on child participation and 156 professionals from the same municipalities completed a web-based survey including six questions on child participation. The aim of the study…

Shared leadership enables employees to develop positive feelings for their organizations and themselves. Especially, their devotional feelings and behaviours towards their organizations increase with the sharing of leadership. In this study, the shared leadership of the school and the organizational commitment levels of the teachers, their…

Purpose: Viewing school as a feminine bias workplace alongside being a field of power relations as argued by Bourdieu, this study examines: (1) gender differences among teachers in different forms of capital (cultural, social, and feminine) and in their participation in decision-making (PDM) at school in three domains: managerial, administration,…

While research has started to contest traditional student-supervisor power asymmetries within work-integrated learning, substantial gaps remain about work-integrated learning feedback, power and resistance. This study explores how students "and" supervisors narrate student power and resistance within work-integrated learning feedback…

This research which aimed to investigate the relationship between the empowerment of teachers by high school administrators and school commitments of teachers was designed in relational screening model. The study group of the research was composed of 188 volunteer teachers working in the public Anatolian High Schools in Aydin during 2017.…

Investigating whether the effects of extrinsic and intrinsic factors on teachers' dissatisfaction with the teaching profession show variation between countries is crucial, especially given the significant impact on quality of instruction, which is also associated with student performance. In this respect, the main aim of this study is to reveal…