Public and official support is currently directed at education, making this the time to respond to the call to action. This article makes some suggestions to help the school administrator address the challenges of educational reform. (DCS)

Investigated whether leader's (N=89) locus of control moderated the relationship between perceived leader influence behaviors and certain subordinate (N=245) outcome variables. The results showed that locus of control did significantly moderate the effect of supervisor influence on productivity and subordinate satisfaction with supervision. (JAC)

During the past decade, leadership-style training has become part and parcel of management development programs in many organizations. Understanding the specific patterns of communication associated with leadership styles can make significant and lasting improvements in performance. (SSH)

Brent Ruben introduces readers to a framework that surveys, summarizes, and synthesizes a broad cross section of the contemporary writings on leadership. The book organizes that literature into five broad competency areas, each of which is composed of a number of themes, and provides a Leadership Competencies Scorecard Inventory that allows…

New energy and resources are emerging for policy discussions about the aspects, types and styles of leadership that lead to effective school practices. Some of these emerging issues include standards for defining high-quality leaders, distributed leadership approaches and school leaders' influence in the creation of a school culture conducive to…

"Winston" is a pseudonym for an international business institute representing a dozen different cultures, which the institute strives to respect equally. Students studying at the institute spend two months of a 24-month program studying abroad. To facilitate the international portion of the program, each country where students are…

This paper focuses on the collegial relationship between school leaders and teachers, and describes the very specific policies behind the school leader's influence on teachers' professional development. In the first phase, 39 teachers from 11 schools were interviewed regarding the teachers' perceptions of their personal professional development…

Author feels that transactional leadership is much more effective than authoritarian behavior on the part of the school principal. (GB)

A more positive model and one more consonant with our way of life than that of the South American caudillo'' is needed for the principal. As long as this country is founded on a political and social democracy, the democratic model would appear to be best for us. (Author/JN)

Malfunctioning organizations do not facilitate the accomplishment of the purposes of their members in a number of ways and for a number of reasons. This paper used Maslow's hierarchy of needs model in an attempt to describe one view of that malfunction. Leadership is examined briefly as a functioning organization's facilitating arrangement.…

Describes specific, emerging leadership processes required from the school administrator as the management of change requires more and more of his time. (Author/JH)

Comments on Management in Education,' (JME V1 n2, Feb 72) and The Function of the Head of a School: a Management Approach,' this issue (AA 515 462). (CB)

What a new principal did to quiet an embattled school, and how he did it, are described by that principal. (AN)

A theoretical integration of several articles dealing with organizational leadership. (RA)

The three basic school management styles are described here, along with some perceptions of how the principal's free choice of style is thwarted by certain conditions. (Editor)