This paper discusses the similarities of issues faced by academic and corporate leaders. Both types of institutions must adapt to the same societal, economic, and political pressures. These include rapidly changing markets, heightened competition, new technologies, and demands for accountability by multiple constituencies. Both industrial and…

This paper reports on a study that investigated a top-down leadership approach that gradually shifted to a collaborative paradigm. It focuses on one junior high school's efforts to increase academic and social success for all its students. The restructuring process began when, for the first time, a female principal was hired in this 35-year-old…

This paper asks where and how women and women's styles of leadership are situated in Easton's Model of Policy Process. The Easton Model provides a means of understanding policy development from a micropolitical perspective and offers analysis of environmental influences on policy decision making and implementation, allowing the model to…

In a study of 75 Southern California classrooms, it was found that both the demographic context and internal organization of the school had strong influences on the perceived classroom leadership styles of the teachers in it. (Author)

The purpose of this research was to determine the specific behaviors and cues which 104 assessors perceived as indicating the presence of psychological variables shown to be related to competent job behavior. Implications of the lack of correlation of cue utilization with assessor characteristics are discussed. (Author)

Focus of this study of leadership is the West Philadelphia Community Free School designed as an alternative within public school education in one of Philadelphia's predominantly black school districts. (Authors/MB)

Discusses the experiences of two T Groups who, after having worked together, separate and select a leader for each group. During tests, these leaders are exchanged resulting in different reactions. (EK)

An attempt "to provide a broad framework within which persuasion in social movements, particularly reformist and revolutionary movements, may be analyzed," focusing on the rhetorical processes" open to the leaders of such movements in meeting the requirements of their roles. (Author/RD)

A model for designing a social studies unit for able (gifted) students that has no national boundaries or time, event, and cultural limitations is explained and illustrated by a diagram. The conceptual model provides an example built around the concept of leadership styles. (SEW)

The bureaucratic and adaptive models of administration are compared, and the adaptive style is found most appropriate for research administration, providing a necessary level of organizational consistency and control while allowing for the unexpected and promoting productivity. Elements of organization, operations, and communications are…

The bureaucratic and adaptive models of administration are compared, and the adaptive style is found most appropriate for research administration, providing a necessary level of organizational consistency and control while alllowing for the unexpected and promoting productivity. Elements of organization, operations, and communications are…

Describes a three-level model of a comprehensive approach to group work. Uses the model to analyze the relative merits and profitable applications of prominent group work theories. (Author/MCF)