Australia has a National Technology Statement (Curriculum Corporation, 1994) that specifies the content and process of technology studies in schools. However, as in the United States, the implementation of curricula is a state responsibility. In the state of Queensland the implementation has been a very gradual process with schools having the…

The concept of team management is perhaps one of the most widely endorsed concepts in school administration today. Shifts in power, pressures on individual administrators, and the desire for organizational improvement have all led educational administrators to look to the management team as a means of solving their problems. This monograph…

Using participant observation, interviews, and other ethnographic methods, the author examined organizational structures and administrative processes and behavior in an innovative senior high school located in a large urban area and known for its implementation of individually guided education. Data analysis yielded theories grounded in the…

Taking the view that principals play a key role in providing a solid educational foundation for students, this review of the literature is designed to better inform administrators, teachers, parents, and the general public about the principal's role and responsibilities. The review focuses on the elementary school principal and includes research…

Attitudes toward the role of women in the army do not introduce a consistent and strong bias into the way male and female leaders are judged by their subordinates. Male and female cadets at the U.S. Military Academy completed questionnaires describing their unit leaders at two training activities. Results showed that egalitarian followers and…

This document reports the activities of a leadership workshop attended by 43 persons representing library and media personnel at all educational levels for the states of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, and Montana. The purpose of the workshop was to identify individual leadership styles, identify and practice group process skills, review and…

Examined are two dimensions of leadership style (task-orientation and person-orientation) as they also define teacher style, specifically, as a function of context (grade-level, teacher experience, and socio-political differences). The Teacher Opinion Questionnaire was utilized to obtain opinions of ideal teacher behavior. Subjects were…

The possibilities of providing, for a manager, an individualized prescription of what he can do to increase the performance of his work unit on designated criteria in selected organizational settings are demonstrated. The information is couched in terms of a 31-variable system described by the manager and his immediate subordinates. Regression…

Many educational administrators are too overwhelmed by paperwork and too short of time, resources, and training, to be effective leaders. Yet some educators and schools are finding ways to make good leadership easier through improving time management skills, providing assistants, instituting administrative training programs, and cutting paperwork.…

Written for petty officers and chief petty officers, this training manual and nonresident career course is designed for individual study in leadership techniques and styles, effects of stress and conflict on human behavior, interpersonal communication, human behavior and motivation, and basic theories of teaching and learning. Divided into eleven…

The National Association of Secondary School Principals sponsored a survey of administrators, students, and activity sponsors about their views concerning school activities. One of the significant findings of the survey was the need for activities sponsors to receive additional training and assistance. Although directed primarily at the first-time…

This study was designed to determine whether a difference in the way teachers have organized as a professional group in relation to the school administration and the local board of education influences teacher role perception and preference for leadership styles. Variables of age, sex, teaching experience, and teaching level were examined. The…

This study assessed the relative degree of association between quality of army life and perceived attributes of different types of leaders. Interviews with one hundred thirty lower ranking enlisted personnel provided information about soldiers' satisfaction with various facets of military experience and their perceptions of the behavior of…

This study investigates the effect of different leadership styles on the group morale of school employees. The author bases his analysis on data collected from 304 randomly selected Minnesota school district administrators. Administrators were classified as either task-oriented or employee-oriented, according to their responses on the Least…

This paper describes an attempt to develop a theoretical model to guide the collection and interpretation of empirical data related to the administrative behavior of school principals. The author selects Griffith's decision-making theory as the conceptual framework for a study of the administrative behaviors of a group of New York City principals.…