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Personal Variable and Administrative Styles

Author(s):
Hemphill, John K
Publication Year:
1962
Report Number:
RM-62-06
Source:
ETS Research Memorandum
Document Type:
Report
Page Count:
29
Subject/Key Words:
Administrator Characteristics, Leadership Styles, Personality Traits, Principals, Work Sample Tests

Abstract

This paper is focused upon the administrative styles of 232 elementary school principals, each of whom worked for one week as the principal of the same simulated school--Whitman School--and whose personal qualities were studied by means of a large battery of cognitive ability, interest, and personality tests.

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