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Dadaczynski, Kevin; Paulus, Peter; Horstmann, David – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: This study aimed to investigate individual and work-related resources (decision latitude, self-efficacy and work-related sense of coherence) and their relationship to health and work outcomes (general health, cognitive and emotional irritation, and work satisfaction) among German school principals. Method: In 2016, all teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Work Environment, Job Satisfaction
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Gülcan, Murat Gürkan; Duran, Ali – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
Being a cross-national analysis, the aim of this study, which draws on data from school principals, is to evaluate parents' involvement in decision-making processes comparatively in Turkey, Germany and France, which are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and were included in the study in terms of some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Parent Participation, Participative Decision Making
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Pietsch, Marcus; Tulowitzki, Pierre; Koch, Tobias – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019
Purpose: Over the past years "leadership for learning" (LFL) has become popular among educational scholars. LFL refers to the idea that effective leaders demonstrate a contextually contingent mix of instructional, transformational, and shared leadership practices that may have differential effects at various organizational levels. These…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Qualities, Participative Decision Making
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Rinne, Risto; Järvinen, Tero; Tikkanen, Jenni; Aro, Mikko – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Neoliberal education policies have altered the operational environments of schools and affected school principals' job descriptions and requirements. As a result of managerialism, decentralisation and marketisation of education, principals are increasingly responsible for profitability, marketing and striving in competition, in addition to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Brauckmann, Stefan; Schwarz, Alexandra – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: School leadership is considered a central agent in the implementation of "New Governance" concepts which have been introduced in Germany by means of accountability measures, decentralization and a growth of autonomy and competition. With the adjustment of policies, rights and duties of school leaders have changed considerably.…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Regression (Statistics)
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Gessler, Michael; Ashmawy, Iman K. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
In this explorative qualitative study the effect of political decentralization on vocational school leadership is investigated. Through conducting structural interviews with 15 school principals in the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony in Germany, the study was able to conclude that political decentralization entails the creation of elected bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Administrative Organization, Politics of Education
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Kuper, Harm – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2002
Presents results of an empirical research project focusing on an explorative analysis of decision structures in schools. Outlines structural patterns of school organizations, taking into account the perspectives of teachers and principals. Provides a starting point for a multi-dimensional modeling of school organizations. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Models
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education