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Watson, Leonard E. – Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators, Power Structure
Download full textGmelch, Walter H.; Swent, Boyd – 1982
School administrators suffer greater stress from administrative constraints than from any other stress factors, according to a survey of over 1,150 Oregon elementary and secondary principals and vice-principals, superintendents, and central office administrators. Researchers isolated 35 stressors, or stress-inducing situations, that could be…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The opinion of the Supreme Court regarding the case of the National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University is presented. The University opposed a petition of the faculty union seeking certification as bargaining agent for the full-time faculty members of certain schools. Refusal by the University was on the ground that all of its faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Hunter, Susanne M. – 1979
In March, 1977, the Vancouver, British Columbia, Board of Trustees responded to a need for administrative assistance in its four largest secondary schools by appointing Vice-Principal Interns in two schools, a Vice-Principal for Curriculum in a third school, and a School Business Assistant in the fourth. These two-year appointments were evaluated…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role
Stotts, Michael J. – 1968
This statewide study involving 11 adult basic education centers in Illinois sought new information on the behavior of full time directors of adult basic education. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) was administered to all teachers and administrators in the centers in response to these questions: "How does the director…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adult Basic Education
Gaynor, Alan K. – 1975
The author focuses on the school principal in this investigation of administrator role in relation to administrator evaluation. He conceives of role as a social construct (a product of the institution as a social system) and delineates two dimensions of role--task and style. The task component defines what the principal is expected to do, while…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Farquhar, Robin H. – 1978
The primary loyalty of the chief executive officer is to the board of education, a group of lay people elected to represent the school's clients. Because accountability is to laymen rather than to senior professionals, chief executive officers must play a heavy role in educating them about education and in generating policy recommendations for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Burns, Robert J.; And Others – 1974
This booklet presents findings of a study conducted to explore the status of the emerging position of school district director of employee relations. Purpose of the study was to ascertain how widespread the position is, to examine the nature of the duties being currently performed by directors of employee relations, and to develop a model job…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Collective Bargaining, Educational Administration
Brady, Ronald W.; And Others – 1975
Most efforts to achieve more effective administrative computing in higher education have focused on technical questions or on isolated applications required by middle management. Much less attention has been paid to the question of the proper role of administrative computing in the accomplishment of overall institutional objectives. The enormous…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Decker, Dwight F. – 1975
The contractual duties of the department chairman at Rhode Island Junior College (RIJC), as at most public community colleges, place him in three roles: administrator, spokesman for his department, and teacher. Because, as a teacher, he is also a member of the collective bargaining unit, a conflict of role assignments occurs whenever the chairman…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Collective Bargaining
Nelson, Walter A. – 1969
The research purpose of this investigation called for determining if varying concepts of the principals' functions in the administration of student teaching programs existed among those elementary and secondary school principals, superintendents, and directors of student teaching involved with programs in selected, accredited institutions in…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Critical Incidents Method
Hayden, Sterling William – 1973
To find among industrial arts department chairmen, secondary school principals, and industrial arts teachers in Missouri the actual and ideal role perceptions of the chairman, 73 public senior high schools in the state employing two or more full-time industrial arts teachers with a department chairman were surveyed using a 2-part instrument…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Area Studies, Department Heads
Lanham, Elizabeth – 1971
As the first in a series, this reexamination of a 1954 personnel study focuses on trends in job evaluation procedures since the early 1950's, specifically dealing with municipalities. The six topical units discussed in this monograph are: (1) a history of job evaluation in municipalities, (2) methods used in securing the cooperation of supervisors…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Administrators, Employment
Drachler, Norman – 1973
Contemporary social changes demand a new role for the educational administrator. Yet, responses to a recent poll of 50 large cities indicate that most school districts still depend on the traditional training by universities for administration. Of the 34 cities that replied, only one school district indicated signs of an ongoing program for…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications
Morita, Edward K.; And Others – 1976
The mission of this study was to describe the current and future roles of professional administrators, medical directors, and governing bodies of fee for service and prepay medical group practices of various sizes in such a way as to be potentially useful to health care delivery educators in curriculum evaluation and design. The position was taken…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Administrators, Costs
