Novice Principals' Attitudes toward Support in Their Leadership

Autor/inn/en	Liljenberg, Mette; Andersson, Klas
Titel	Novice Principals' Attitudes toward Support in Their Leadership
Quelle	In: International Journal of Leadership in Education, 23 (2020) 5, S.567-584 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3124
DOI	10.1080/13603124.2018.1543807
Schlagwörter	Beginning Principals; School Administration; Elementary Schools; Secondary Schools; Leadership Styles; Participative Decision Making; Administrator Responsibility; Work Environment; Professional Isolation; Collegiality; Job Satisfaction; Instructional Leadership; Leadership Role; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Sekundarschule; Führungsstil; Arbeitsmilieu; Kollegialität; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	Novice principals experience intense work situations and various solutions have been suggested to handle them. This paper explores western Swedish novice principals' attitudes toward support in their leadership. Specific questions addressed are whether the principals believe that two approaches, the so-called "heroic" and "distributed" approaches, could improve their job satisfaction, pedagogical leadership and relationships within their schools. The research provides novel contributions as it combines a scenario-based experiment with follow-up interviews to provide new insights regarding school leadership. The results clearly demonstrate that novice principals experience intense working situations. Moreover, they show that the principals significantly favor the heroic leadership approach for promoting job satisfaction and facilitating relational aspects of their work. However, for mitigating the loneliness associated with a leadership role, the principals significantly favor the distributed leadership approach. Thus, the results raise questions about previous suggestions that distributed leadership is a panacea for principals' intense work situations. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01