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Bacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
Data from a sample comprising 46 superintendents and 95 principals in 83 New York State school districts indicate that, for each role, different factors hindering task completion (including bureaucracy, supervision, decision-making power, work demands, and district and individual characteristics) will predict administrator dissatisfaction with…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Bureaucracy, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education
Bacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
Conceptualizing stress as an interaction of organizational or work characteristics (stress stimuli) and individual characteristics (stress resistance), this paper reports a study of teacher stress in 42 elementary school organizations and 45 secondary school organizations. Organizational stress is operationalized as the aggregate average response…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, High Schools, Multiple Regression Analysis, Organization