ERIC Number: ED279444
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Jan-30
Pages: 46
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Situational Factors Contributing to Administrator Turnover in Small Kansas School Districts and High Schools.
Heim, John M.; Wilson, Alfred P.
A study of turnover among high school superintendents and principals in small Kansas school districts found differences in demographic and organizational characteristics, performance measures, and administrators' perceptions in districts with high and low turnover rates. Data obtained from 72 administrator interviews and educational directories and state salary/financial reports discovered differences in workload and support personnel, number of attendance centers, teacher relations, salaries, community location, school board stability, and wealth per pupil. Qualities of low turnover schools/districts included presence of assistant superintendents, administrators' perceptions of their salaries as above average, good community location, more centralization, administrators' positive attitude toward workload and satisfaction with others in workplace, better teacher-administrator relations, and teachers perceived by administrators as better paid than teachers in other districts. Qualities of high turnover schools/districts included superintendents serving simultaneously as principals, reelection of school board president after previous defeat, more attendance centers, more problems with teacher relations, more wealth per pupil, more isolated communities, past administrator incompetence, good training ground for a better job. The study compares results with other reported research and points out implications for small school districts seeking to reduce administrative turnover and for administrators seeking employment. (LFL)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Boards of Education, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Faculty Workload, Organizational Climate, Persistence, Principals, Relocation, Salaries, Small Schools, Superintendents, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Work Attitudes
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kansas
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