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Brown, Donnise – OSSC Bulletin, 1981
A survey of a random sample of 165 Oregon school board members examined the degree to which they agreed with four standards for appropriate school board behavior. The standards were drawn from the literature intended to educate school board members about their proper roles. The respondents agreed strongly with three of the standards: that the…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Association of School Business Officials of the United States and Canada, Park Ridge, IL. Research Corp. – 1980
Each step involved in developing an objective salary schedule for school administrators and supervisors is explained in this booklet. The schedule is based on job analysis (division of each administrative job into its component parts) and job evaluation (assignment of numerical points to indicate the relative importance of each position). The…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines
Download full textZeigler, L. Harmon; And Others – 1981
This report describes the sources and substance of conflicts as revealed by city managers and superintendents. The data presented are from interviews conducted for a study that compares and contrasts the conflict management behaviors of 52 superintendents and 52 city managers and the conditions that are associated with them. The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Citizen Participation, City Officials, Comparative Analysis
Coursen, David; Mazzarella, Jo Ann – 1981
Chapter 2 of a volume on school leadership, this chapter examines the ethnic background and sex of educational leaders, concluding that, even after decades of civil rights and feminist activities, nearly all educational administrators are white males. The authors make a case for the value of diversity in educational leadership, then present their…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Selection, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Kalkhoven, Shirley – 1981
This paper attempts to examine the school board's role in superintendent evaluation. It begins by quoting several articles on the subject of superintendent evaluation and the superintendent-board relationship. The author recommends four simple questions to ask when formulating and completing an evaluation procedure: What do we want the…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role
Zeigler, L. Harmon; And Others – 1981
Excerpted from the final report for a pilot study on conflict management, this paper gives a theoretical overview of the role of conflict in educational and municipal governance and offers two in-depth analyses that illustrate the theories presented. The authors' comparative study of the behavior of superintendents and city managers suggested that…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, City Officials, Community Organizations
Fletcher, Verna M. – 1980
The question of who develops and adopts the rules and regulations to implement educational policies is at the center of the role controversy between boards of education and superintendents. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the demarcations between policy-making and administrative roles. Certain assumptions about board and superintendent…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Thomas, M. Donald – 1977
Shared decision-making can help schools keep sight of their true goals. In the educational sector the conflicts that arise in collective bargaining disputes can be destructive to the organization. Schools require more than the mere coexistence of labor and management. They require cooperation and strong, supportive relationships. To establish a…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board Administrator Relationship, Collective Bargaining, Conflict
Hunt, Thomas C. – 1980
As evidenced by official documents of state superintendents, Protestantism and Bible-reading ceased to comprise the foundation for moral education in the public schools of Wisconsin by 1890. Although the 1848 Wisconsin Constitution mandated against sectarian instruction in public schools, the "Annual Reports" and "Decision…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Court Litigation, Educational Attitudes, Educational History
JOHNSON, HOMER M.; AND OTHERS – 1967
TO DETERMINE WHETHER A CORRELATION EXISTS BETWEEN PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS AND THEIR WILLINGNESS TO IMPLEMENT INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION, CATTELL'S 16 P.F. QUESTIONNAIRE AND A THREE-PART SCALE ON INNOVATION WERE EMPLOYED TO GATHER DATA FROM 93 IDAHO SUPERINTENDENTS AND 71 SUPERINTENDENTS FROM 12 OTHER STATES WHO HAD BEEN…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bibliographies, Change Agents, Educational Change
MCCLAY, DAVID R. – 1966
A REDUCTION OF THE FOREIGN FARM WORK FORCE IN CALIFORNIA AND SUBSEQUENT INCREASE OF THE DOMESTIC WORK FORCE CREATED A NEED FOR TRAINING FARM FOREMEN. DEVELOPMENT OF A COURSE GUIDE AND A WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS PRECEDED THE 24 COURSES CONDUCTED TO TRAIN 420 FOREMEN WHO SUPERVISED 20,000 WORKERS. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE IF…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Laborers, Braceros, Crew Leaders
Duea, Jerry; Bishop, Walter L. – 1980
During the fall of 1979, PROBE (Practical Research into Organizational Behavior and Effectiveness), an independent research organization, undertook a survey of public school district superintendents to elicit their views on education in areas parallel to those expressed in the annual Gallup Poll of the public's attitude toward the schools. A…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Discipline, Educational Finance
Stuckman, Ralph; Gatton, Joseph A. – 1979
This study attempted to determine the community power-dynamics affecting operational levies in six Ohio school districts. Three of the levies that were studied passed and three failed. Thirty selected participants were given a focused interview and their reactions were tape recorded and analyzed. Several findings emerged. In the districts that…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Citizen Participation, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Power
Paddock, Susan C.; And Others – 1979
This manual is the result of a two-year study by Arizona State University involving identification and assessment of competencies needed in community education. The goal of the study is to help community educators (1) identify competencies needed for superintendents, principals, coordinators, and directors; (2) establish priority rankings for…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Administrators, Community Education
American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, VA. – 1979
This guide, the third in a series of three, describes the basic framework for formulating a workable contract between the superintendent and the school board. It is designed to address contractual concerns such as administrator liability and due process, which have impacted on both the educational administrator profession and the school board…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Guides, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role
