Examines early development/justification of organized camping for girls. Outlines three strategies to gain support for organized camping for girls: rhetorical, curricular, and organizational. Illustrates how Laura Matoon exemplified commitments and strategies of women leaders in the early camping movement, lending social independence to the task…

Supplied subjects (N=50) with the description of a director's erroneous decision and a number of accounts he might have given for it. Subjects rated the accounts on acceptability and leadership. Results showed perception of the decision's propriety and planning affected ratings of acceptability and leadership. (Author/BH)

Four myths about women in educational administration are examined in light of available research evidence: (1) women do not have the characteristics to be administrators; (2) they lack support of teachers and the community; (3) they do not aspire to administration; and (4) they lack training and experience. (SK)

Explores the effectiveness of leader interventions in breaking down resistance in a therapy group for battered women (N=6). Session records were analyzed. Results indicated that therapists' statements had a direct influence on client responses. Concluded that a moderate level of interpretation is most effective for maintaining minimum resistance…

Presents ten guidelines for human relations skills that can help elevate the practice of student personnel administration to an art form. Administrators need to develop and perfect leadership skills including respect for individual differences, consistency, listening skills, instinct, being a role model, and establishment of realistic performance…

Discusses an instrument called "The Balance of Power" which is designed to enable managers to identify their management skill needs and improve their management style by balancing effective planning and involvement of the person to be managed. Five management styles and their idiosyncrasies are discussed. (MBR)

This study investigated basketball players' preferences for different decision making styles in varying situations. While females were more oriented toward participation than males were, preferences of both groups were more influenced by main effects of coach's information and the interaction of quality requirement with problem complexity.…

A selected review of how the study of leadership has been approached is followed by brief descriptions of four leadership theories considered significant today. The research is applied to a program that focused on basic proficiencies in the seventh and eighth grades essential to passing the required Tennessee Proficiency Test. (MLF)

Describes a study of 300 male and female college administrators to measure their ability to adapt leadership styles to different leadership situations and problems as they arise. Results indicate that there are not significant differences between male and female administrators in their overall administrative effectiveness nor in their overall…

Various schools of thought on conflict management in academic institutions are explored in the article. A significant change from the traditional administrative attitude toward conflict is to view conflict as a means to healthy change and growth. Specific conflict-management techniques are discussed. (DF)

Focused on the relationship between supervisors' structuring (task orientation) and consideration (relationship orientation) behaviors and job satisfation, stress, and health problems of 78 rehabilitation workers. Higher job satisfaction and lower stress were related to high supervisor consideration. More health problems were reported when…

Data gathered from 208 nonadministrative supervisors and managers at a Midwestern university demonstrated that femininity is closely related to the consideration dimension of leadership style and that masculinity is related to the initiating structure dimension. (PD)

Shared decision making is the best vehicle for planned change, according to this author. But, he reminds readers, if it is to work, clarification of the administrator's role and of his responsibility for setting the general pattern of leadership is needed. He believes that shared decision making is truly an art. (Editor)

The results suggest that principals who exhibit strong Initiating Structure tend to have teachers with a substantial Professional Zone of Acceptance irrespective of the Consideration dimension of leadership. (Author)

This paper discusses the authors' experiences with organizing and running groups for clients in career transition, whether that be a completely new career or a job search. One key to successful groups is organization, especially finding the right mix of members. They can have similar or different goals, but must be well matched for ego-strength.…