High schools as staff perceive them

Halpin and Croft's OCDQ and Aiken and Hayes' bureaucratisation scale were administered to the staffs of 14 State High Schools in an Australian city. The data were subjected to a principal component analysis followed by a varimax rotation. This procedure procured six measures. A diagrammatic representation of the differences revealed between groups within a school is presented. The most significant conclusion is that a high school will include in its staff groups who hold distinct perceptual models of the school's administrative structure and of the principal's leadership quality

School Structure, Leadership Quality and Teacher Satisfaction

The relationships between teachers' perceptions of the structural char acteristics of their schools, the leadership quality of their principals, and the extent of the satisfaction they express with their work and their col leagues are examined. The results as displayed by two groups of teachers, one of which attaches a high, and the other a low, degree of importance to the professional value, belief in knowledge and theory suggest that action taken to increase the satisfaction of one group may decrease the satisfaction of the other