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RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON ADMINISTRATIVE STRESS: CAUSES, REACTIONS, RESPONSES AND CONSEQUENCES
WALTER H. GMELCHStress intrigues and plagues the practitioner and researcher alike. Internationally over 100,000 books, journals and articles have dedicated their attention to the phenomenon of…
“IT'S FRIDAY AND I KNOW IT!” OBSERVATIONS OF A PRINCIPAL AT WORK
LYLE WHANThe study of Malcolm Tims, principal at Boobook Primary School, is one example of the descriptive case studies written for ten primary school principals in one N.S.W…
PERCEPTIONS OF ROLE RELATED STRESS IN SENIOR EDUCATIONAL EXECUTIVES AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR HEALTH
MEL BERGIN, ROBERT SOLMANHow stressful is the role of inspectors of schools and senior educational administrators of a large state department of education? How do they compare with teachers and other…
ADMINISTRATOR BURNOUT: FINDINGS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
JAMES C. SARROSThe increasing incidence of educator stress and burnout is cause for concern. Nonetheless, the findings of this Canadian‐based study indicate that school principals are…
PRINCIPALS' MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOR, PERSONALITY TYPES AND PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS
BRUCE S. COOPER, JOHN W. SIEVERDING, RODNEY MUTHData from sophisticated portable heart‐rate monitors and “work diaries” were used to relate in Mintzberg's “nature of managerial work” to physiological stress in a small sample of…
EDUCATORS' RESPONSE TO STRESS: TOWARDS A COPING TAXONOMY
WALTER H. GMELCHPopular writers and academic researchers have added volumes of literature in the past decades to the study of occupational stress. Most data based studies have investigated the…
THE OVER‐STATED CASE OF EDUCATOR STRESS
MIKE MILSTEIN, JAMES FARKASThe main body of literature that has developed about educator stress indicates ours is a profession marked by high levels of distressful encounters and that educators are not…
EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS AND JOB‐RELATED STRESS ON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
Y.L. JACK LAMWith data secured from 256 school principals in Manitoba, the study examined the impact of external environmental constraints upon the various types and sources of job‐related…
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- Professor Chen Schechter
- Professor Jayson W. Richardson