Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 18 Issue 2

A PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL DECISION MAKERS

GRAHAM PATTERSON

Teachers and educational decision makers often take a problem solving approach to difficulties that arise in their professional sphere. The solutions are often effective in the…

ANXIETY IN ORGANIZATIONS: EXPLORATIONS OF AN IDEA

A.R. CRANE

The paper sets out to explore the idea that anxiety is an endemic factor in organizational membership. Harry Stack Sullivan's concept of anxiety as “threatened self esteem” is…

ISSUES IN THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

MICHAEL STANTON

Considerable importance has been attached, in recent years, to the academic aspects of the professional development of secondary school principals. A case is presented for several…

SUPERVISORY BEHAVIOR AND TEACHER SATISFACTION

KEN P. FRASER

The problem of this study was: (a) to determine the degree of agreement between teacher perceptions of actual and preferred supervisory behavior in Montana public schools during…

ORGANISATIONAL ROLE CLIMATES: SUCCESS‐FAILURE CONFIGURATIONS IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: (or Are Educational Administrators Doomed to Succeed?)

DAN E. INBAR

The classical dichotomy between success and failure is hardly applicable in the analysis of organisational behaviour, performance and outcomes in complex social roles, such as…

SEX BIAS IN THE EVALUATION OF ADMINISTRATORS

JAMES M. FRASHER, RAMONA S. FRASHER

Using a set of in‐basket materials that suggest specific leadership styles, 135 graduate students in educational administration evaluated hypothetical superintendents who were…

A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO MARKETING A UNIVERSITY

PETER DOYLE, GERALD D. NEWBOULD

The environment in which U.S. universities operate is expected to become more difficult. This paper translates the marketing function, as developed for business, into a university…

WORK‐RELATED ATTITUDES OF ACADEMIC STAFF AT AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES: PART 1 — THE SURVEY AND ITS FINDINGS

J.E. EVERETT, L.V. ENTREKIN

A survey of the work‐related attitudes and demographic charcteristics of academic staff is reported. Nine institutions were surveyed: two universities and two colleges of advanced…

NOTES ON THEORY AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: A STUDY OF FACULTY STAFF REACTIONS TO THREE TYPES OF LEADERSHIP

BILL SWAN

INTRODUCTION The work of Lewin and his associates showed that the same groups of people behave in distinctly different ways under leaders whose styles differ. Subsequently, many…