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Promoting Resilience in Schools: A View from Occupational Health Psychology
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Griffiths, Amanda – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
This paper considers teacher resilience from the viewpoint of a discipline concerned with the interactions between work design, management style and employee health and well-being: occupational health psychology. It will be suggested that there are strong parallels between interventions designed to promote resilience and those designed to reduce…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Occupational Safety and Health, Psychology, Intervention
When Directors Lose Their Way
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Carter, Margie – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Directors of early childhood programs are an amazing lot! There's so much dedication, such hard work and creative problem solving. But then that inevitable undertow of deadlines, crises, and illness begins to suck directors down. With crisis management becoming a way of life, they don't even recognize their vital signs slipping away. The author…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Job Skills, Performance Technology, Stress Management
The Relationship between Chief Information Officer Transformational Leadership and Computing Platform Operating Systems
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Anderson, George W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to relate the strength of Chief Information Officer (CIO) transformational leadership behaviors to 1 of 5 computing platform operating systems (OSs) that may be selected for a firm's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business system. Research shows executive leader behaviors may promote innovation through the use of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis, Transformational Leadership, Information Technology
Organizational Change: Motivation, Communication, and Leadership Effectiveness
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Gilley, Ann; Gilley, Jerry W.; McMillan, Heather S. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
Research indicates that numerous variables have an impact on a leader's effectiveness. This study explores the behaviors associated with leadership effectiveness in driving change. The findings confirm previous research that identifies change effectiveness skills, while isolating the specific leader behaviors deemed most valuable to implementing…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Organizational Change, Organizational Communication, Administrator Behavior
Employee Retention and Performance Improvement in High-Tech Companies.
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Ware, B. Lynn – Performance Improvement, 2001
Considers the benefits of employee retention and performance improvement in high technology, new economy companies. Discusses attracting and retaining top talent in information technology companies; targeted recruiting and hiring; employee achievement; learning and professional growth; recognition; nurturing careers; team collaboration; the TALENT…
Descriptors: Achievement, Administrator Behavior, Business, Career Development
The CCM Model: A Management Approach to Performance Optimization
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Geroy, Gary D.; Bray, Amber; Venneberg, Donald L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005
Three leadership styles are frequently discussed in the literature today: transactional, transformational, and most recently--transcendental. Managers may be able to put transactional, transformational, and transcendental leadership style theories into practice without inventing a new set of processes and procedures to achieve individual follower…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Coaching (Performance), Counseling, Mentors