The author shows how "Star Trek" is more than a television show about space exploration and the future. Captain Kirk's style demonstrates there are goals to be achieved. (Author/MLF)

This study examines the relationship between leader behavior and sex role identification. Results of two measurement instruments support a connection between masculine characteristics and structuring behavior as a leader, but do not uphold hypotheses for the relationship between sex role identity and leadership style. (Author/EB)

Discusses common categories of inhumane management behavior identified in a survey of principals and school district administrators. (JG)

Argues that managers need to be skilled at acquiring and using power to do their jobs, and discusses four different types of power they can use to influence others. (JG)

Inattention to social systems in organizations has led researchers to underestimate the importance of culture--shared norms, values, and assumptions--in how organizations function. The failure of organizational learning can be understood by examining typical responses to change by members of several broad occupational cultures (operators,…

Examined leadership styles of principals and assistant principals employed in the Texas Panhandle area, focusing on administrator differences based on school level, position held, and gender. Employed four leadership domains (functional, interpersonal, contextual, and programmatic) as a basis for the survey instrument. Principals at all levels are…

Examined ways in which department heads and subject coordinators of large first-year subjects experience the leadership of teaching. Explored empirical relations between coordinators' conceptions of leadership and teachers' perceptions of leadership, and between teachers' perceptions of coordinators' leadership and teachers' approaches to…

Administered questionnaire to 83 graduate students in four educational administration courses to determine their opinions about the core processes of professional learning communities and their perceived relationships to school effectiveness and the leadership style of the principal. Finds positive association between collaborative leadership…

Argues that good directors are not as autocratic and individualistic as they are often portrayed. Suggests that theater is much more of an ensemble effort. States that good theater grows out of the performers' desire to reach the audience. Articulates guidelines for the teacher or theater director who wishes to change "I" to…

Critiques major topics or themes in school-leadership texts, such as problem-solving techniques; suggests alternative topics or themes for school administrators, such as ideas-based leadership. Draws implications for writers on school leadership. (Contains 59 references.) (PKP)

Explored how a select group of retired community college presidents constructed their concepts of themselves as leaders. Through in-depth interviews these former presidents mapped the course of their leadership through seven approaches: empowering, energizing, healing, inspiring, revealing, cultivating, and humanizing the organization and its…

A literature review identified elements of transformational leadership and desirable learning outcomes related to it. The review suggests that management instructions should enact transformative leadership in the process of teaching about it. (Contains 31 references.) (SK)

Preceptors' leadership characteristics influence nursing students' clinical experience. Preceptors' leadership styles can be assessed with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or Hersey and Blanchard's Leader Behavior Analysis II instrument, which identifies four styles based on situational leadership. (Contains 25 references.) (SK)

Personal account of her first-year experience as superintendent of Washington County Public Schools in Hagerstown, Maryland. (PKP)

To develop nonbureaucratic leadership behavior (and earn prestige among staff members), principals must understand and recognize seven bureaucratic/nonbureaucratic ranges of behavior: stability/activity; intention/distinction; accountability/efficacy; regularity/ variability; intervention/facilitation; control/empowerment; and…