A profile of a selected successful and effective Florida middle school principal was developed from qualitative data generated from an anthropological fieldwork methodology in order to determine the relationships between the environment perceived by the principal and his actions in critical task areas. Luthans's contingency approach was used to explain the principal's organization and management behavior. Ethnography was employed to identify the individuals, groups, and other forces the principal perceived to facilitate or inhibit achievement of his goals and to identify subsequent leadership and management activities he employed to take advantage of or cope with these perceptions. Differences were found between normative administrative behavior prescribed in the related literature and the selected principal's actual behavior. The principal was found to behave as a subordinate and subservient bureaucrat, a public relations agent, and a humanistic and benevolent father. Recommendations were made that the study be replicated and also duplicated to further investigate these three roles. Underscored was the need to understand the behavior of school administrators in the context of their social networks and the general phenomenon known as social entrepreneurship. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, Section: A, page: 0615. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74791 |
| Contributors | PINNEY, NELSON MORROW., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 488 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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