Leadership is an important factor in the effective implementation of technology in schools. This study examines the transformational leadership role of principals to determine whether transformational leadership role of principals in ICT implementation in schools is influenced by the computer competence, level of computer use, and professional development activities of principals. This paper, b...

Across public and private school systems, there is a shortage of principals in the United States. Many studies have identified reasons why school principals leave their jobs. However, few studies have been conducted to understand why principals stay. The purpose of this article is to describe the experiences of 14 principals who have remained in leadership in the Seventh-day Adventist system of...

Tournaments provide incentives through the prize spread. Agents are predicted to work harder for higher prize spreads, and thus principals are predicted to maximize the spread. This paper shows experimentally how changing institutional environments affect the way that principals structure tournament incentives, and the degree of wage compression. While in some settings tournaments provide power...

This paper studies games of delegated common agency under asymmetric information. Using tools from non-smooth analysis and control, we derive best responses and equilibria under weak conditions on equilibrium schedules. Inefficiencies in equilibrium arise from two sources: inefficient contracting by a given coalition of active principals and inefficient participation (insufficient activity) by ...

The Competencies of High School Principals in District Four of Mashhad H. Ekrami, M.A. V. Hoshyar, Ph.D. The present study was conducted to identify the competencies of high school principals, propose a competency model, and validate the model. The research was carried out in district four of Mashhad in 2015 and examined two questions: 1.What are the dimensions and components o...

Subjective supervisor evaluations play a large role in promotion and retention decisions in a wide variety of occupations. In this paper, we examine the relationship between objective and subjective measures of performance in the education sector. Specifically, we ask three questions: (1) Can principals identify effective teachers defined as those who produce the largest improvement on standard...

When a principal hires an agent to do searching, she needs to motivate the agent to pay effort as well as to deliver a suitable result. Since different principals have different taste and the suitability of the search result is not entirely determined by the agents’ effort, there is an opportunity for agents to cooperate among themselves and use commission sharing to match search results to pri...

Michael W. Graham Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education and Human Services, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri Philip E. Messner Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Cooperative Doctoral Program, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education and Human Services, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Miss...

Mutual fund providers serve two principals with opposing interests: their owners, who want them to maximize profits, and their fund shareholders, who want them to maximize fund returns. I investigate what role is played by customer power and information, as well as by competition among fund providers in influencing the balance of power between these two opposing principals. Using a data set of ...