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No Such Thing as Balance
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Zigler, Ted – Principal Leadership, 2007
The demands of the principalship today are keeping good people away. They do not want to deal with the demands on their time, the drive for great test scores, hovering parents, neglectful parents, teachers' needs, and the political hot spot that some schools have become in their communities. They do not see current principals finding balance and…
Descriptors: Principals, Time Management, Politics of Education, Job Satisfaction
First Year Firsts
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Dickinson, Gail K. – Library Media Connection, 2007
In this article, the author shares some tips for the new or not-so-new library media specialists. During the first week of school, the library media specialist's life will be filled with teacher work days, mandatory meetings, piles of stuff with no apparent purpose, and a line of teachers and other staff who want something from the library. There…
Descriptors: Media Specialists, Library Services, School Libraries, Goal Orientation
Total Quality Management: Empirical, Conceptual, and Practical Issues.
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Hackman, J. Richard; Wageman, Ruth – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1995
Total quality management (TQM) has become a U.S. social movement. This commentary analyzes the writings of W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, and Kaoru Ishikawa to assess TQM's coherence, distinctiveness, and likely perseverance. Rhetoric is winning over substance, unrelated interventions are being herded under the TQM banner, and research is not…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Goal Orientation, Industry, Learning Processes
Female Professionals' Organizational Behaviors, Evaluations and Outcomes: Implications for Future Research.
Shockley-Zalabak, Pamela; Staley, Constance Courtney – 1986
A set of propositions surrounding the gender issue within organizations is identified in this paper along with research propositions which have implications for future research. The paper's major thesis is that career development is best understood when work attitudes and behaviors are related to overall evaluation systems which result in…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Goal Orientation
Influencing Process Change: Understanding the Role of Learning Transfer Climates, Self-Efficacy, and Goal Commitment.
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Washington, Christopher L. – 2000
Work process change is a popular approach to performance improvement in contemporary organizations. Variables that serve as leading indicators of employee performance when process changes take place include employee learning, self-efficacy beliefs, learning transfer climate, and goal commitment. Two critical concerns exist when implementing…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
The Multiple Effects of Influencing External Funding Productivity.
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Denton, Jon J.; Hunter, Frances A. – 1995
This study examined how sustained faculty participation produced substantial increases in external funding for a College of Education while the organizational climate of the college collapsed and faculty morale plummeted. The paper first offers a review of the literature on work motivation that provides a rationale for strategies for increasing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Financial Support, Fund Raising
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR.
Beder, Sharon – 2000
This book provides an account and critique of the work ethic, a central aspect of modern capitalist society. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 considers social changes in Europe in the 16th-17th centuries, maintaining that work was imbued with moral qualities and wealth seeking acquired social legitimacy through religious sanction. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advantaged, Behavior Standards, Capitalism