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Download full textMiskel, Cecil; And Others – 1979
This study tested the hypotheses that expectancy work motivation, individual attitudes toward work, and structural and environmental components are predictions of teacher job satisfaction and effectiveness. Samples were selected from junior high school and higher education faculties. Subjects responded to open-ended questionnaires, and results…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Interests, Job Satisfaction, Longitudinal Studies
Miskel, Cecil – 1979
Examination of the relevant literature indicates that most studies of school structure and interpersonal relations have either been too narrow in scope, too theoretical, or too tied to the individual as the unit of analysis to support any conclusive generalizations. A search of the literature for appropriate variables to include in a more complex…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Job Satisfaction
Miskel, Cecil – 1975
The hypothesis guiding the study was that work motivation attitudes, behavior, and perceptions of others--as leader style concepts--and school climate--as a situational construct--are linearly and curvilinearly related to subordinate, superordinate, self, and organizational effectiveness criteria. A total of 179 principals, 996 teachers, and 41…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction
Stewart, David A.; Miskel, Cecil – 1977
Schools are functioning in an era of rapid change and increasing mobility. In an effort to mobilize the organizational structure to meet the standards being dictated by society, the school district reorganized the administrative structure to emphasize decentralized decision-making for direct educational functions. The hypothesis was made that…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Decentralization, Decision Making
Miskel, Cecil; And Others – 1977
The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that schools with more participative processes and less structure have higher levels of perceived organizational effectiveness, teacher job satisfaction, and student achievement than schools with less participative climates and more structure. A sample of 114 school units and 1,632 teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Bureaucracy, Decision Making
Miskel, Cecil; McDonald, David – 1982
The relationship between structural coupling within schools and school effectiveness was examined through two questionnaire surveys of 89 public elementary and secondary schools in Kansas. The measures of school effectiveness included teacher perceptions of their school's adaptability and goal attainment, teacher job satisfaction, and student…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Discipline Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship
Miskel, Cecil; Bloom, Susan – 1982
Two questionnaire surveys of 89 Kansas public elementary and secondary schools examined, first, the relationship between school expectancy climate--teachers' expectations that their efforts would lead to positive student results--and school effectiveness, and, second, the change in that relationship through the school year. School effectiveness…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation
