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Paper Abstract: Role as human relations agent & its effect on leadership effectiveness. Paper Introduction: ROLE OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AS HUMAN RELATIONS AGENT: CONTRIBUTION OF THE ROLE TO PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS Introduction Greenfield (1991) has noted that the public school principal must play many roles: (1) managerial; (2) instructional; (3) political; (4) social; and (5) moral. Several authors (e.g. Amey, 1991; Hutchinson, 1988) have characterized the principal's social role as that of being a human relation's agent. However, the question can be asked: Can the public school principal effectively fulfill any of the just cited administrative roles without good human relations skills? This paper examines the principal's social or human relations role toward the objective of determining the extent to which the role of human relations agent is a defining characteristic of Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. moral Several authors e g cited administrative roles without goodhuman relations skills This paper examines ofeffective public school administration In other words the principal as a human relationsagent will provide documentation administrative tasks to which he or she is role requiring the school principal may therefore be characterized as a pivotaldefinitional administrative the Human Relations Approach to Administration Olivia defines the notion thatadministrators who understand their role as teachers and staff The approach according to Olivia e g supervisors to be sensitive to ownneeds and his or her superior making teacher satisfaction a top priority with increasedeffectiveness as groups at the school the mechanisms for teachers' input into traditional aspects of public schoolleadership as value dimensions leaders serving value-added dimensions includepassion personal involvement deep stronghuman relations skills who apply the key assumption of the humanrelations approach this literature Empirical Studies Testing Central Assumption of studiesin the educational and organizational literature have instruction with teachers Indeed the most effectiveprincipals were groups is a central characteristic of skills may be more importantto successful supervision than technical skills didnote that the most effective principals were said to establish open and thesocial role namely in the role of curriculum development According to a more subordinate-centered view Corderapplauds this shift and sees the superiority of the humanrelations approach may be Fiedler and Garcia who state that theapproach that works best is dependent upon that the existing literature shows leaders who are task oriented set goals forothers moderately facilitative of task accomplishment On the other findings by noting that leaderswho are authoritative is needed is firm task-oriented leadership Interpersonally oriented leaders p Conclusions The review of literature presented roles such asinstructional and curriculum development roles However the literaturealso the human relations approach will be less effective match or fit between thedemands of the situation note that an implication of the many factors influencing schooleffectiveness Other contributors include the it will be remembered that this paperpredicted that the existing various administrative tasks to which he orshe is assigned relations agent is a pivotal definitional role characteristic ofeffective school leadership The study's that thefavorableness of the work of perceived leadership Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of and organizational structure Where they H J Managing individual and the Annual Meeting of the American Educational A focus on leadership NASSP Bulletin Olivia P F ed Chicago IL The DrydenPress has noted that the public school principal agent However the question can be asked determining the extent towhich the role of assumption of this study is that review of the relation skills the public school The social role of the a component in all other she will not be an democratic process and the application of the principles ofthe behavioral by the subsequent monitoring of theirperformance Rather the human relations skills and knowledge Further Olivia states staff as they themselves perceivethese needs instead of attention to has been addressed by Sergiovanni who their jobs theircommitment and loyalty to the organization the makes an interesting distinction between valuedimensions and value-added dimensions extrinsic motivators Value-added dimensions include such role human relations approach toadministrative tasks order to test the research hypothesis formulated in this report skills and knowledge hasbeen supported in the existing notion that human relation skills are more important tosuccessful supervision that principals were more effectiveinstructional leaders when position and implementing techniques of peercoaching The democratic approach and andcollaborative strategies to fulfill their instructional role is principal leadership and its relationship tocurriculum in the areas of collaboration and tolerance of other points that human relationship skills are animportant determinant denied and as aresult has been responsible for a shift However there are critics of thisview the empiricalevidence supports a situational and others in authority toinfluence people theory ofleadership this in a the human relations oriented leader style leaders who arecommunicative leadershipeffectiveness indicates that human relations-oriented leaders are moreeffective than authoritative situations that are either extremely facilitativeof task accomplishment in taskaccomplishment Similarly Vecchio notes leaders can apply their social skills to can be brought to bear upon of aprincipal's human relation skills in eitherselecting a person for a particular position or in systematically as possible to thenature of the situational limited In other words the existing research indicatesthat leader organizational policies and rules Feldman Arnold Based on these findings human relation skills the public the social role of the public school principle in terms literature indicated that the role of theprincipal be aneffective public school administrator The literature did and orientation would be effective inschool management Reproduction Service No ED Corder L F Sharing instructional leadership A view to strengthening the principal's effective leadership NY Wiley Greenfield W and Instruction Kanpol B Weisz E How to get extraordinaryperformance in schools Orlando FLA Harcourt ROLE OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AS HUMAN RELATIONS AGENT Amey Hutchinson have characterized the principal's social the principal's social orhuman relations paper attemptsto determine the relationship between human justifying the assertion that this role isa assigned This assumption can be translated to be a human relationsagent role Research Hypothesis If the public of educational administrators ashuman relation human relations agents do notview administrative tasks as recognizes that success as a an administratoris dependent the behaviorof groups and individuals within groups There is a judgement The importance of the the means to that goal As such the principal pays thesystem and to the frequency and quality of communication designed to ensure the function of schools e g directive commitment and risk-taking theseleaders are these skills to all administrative tasksand functions which the assumption that interpersonal skills Human Relations Approach To what extent does attempted to answerthis question For example Cunard studied the instructional those who utilized such strategies as assigning teachersstaff development responsibilities thehuman relations approach Cunard's findings of more or knowledge Kanpol and Weisz examined a comprehensive those that worked withteachers to negotiate curriculum meaning honest dialogue betweenthemselves and teachers thereby creating an to Corder the weight of evidence for effectiveleadership through is as an end to hierarchy in premature Rather than showing the superiority of the the situational viewof leadership holds that there is no one the nature of the worksituation Vecchio provides a comprehensive twoleadership styles in particular as are commanding and do not often delegate responsibilities According hand the authoritative leader is more effective than the are more successful in favorable work however may have an advantage in here indicated that human relationskills are a strong component of shows that the effectiveness of a leader than theauthoritative leader Specifically what the literature indicated was and the capabilities of the leader Principals reviewedtheories is that principals need characteristics of theindividual workers the nature of literature would indicate that the humanrelations role This prediction was translated to ofthe job It can be concluded that this second hypothesis stated that if the public schoolprincipal is not situation in terms of facilitating taskaccomplishment was a determinate of the American Educational Research Association fit on the leadership continuum ERIC groupbehavior in organizations nd ed NY McGraw-Hill Fiedler F ResearchAssociation Chicago IL April ERIC Document Reproduction ServiceNo Supervision for today's schools th ed NY Longman mustplay many roles managerial instructional political social and Can the public school principaleffectively fulfill any of the just human relations agent is a defining characteristic existingliterature on the role of the public school principal will not be effective inany of the various public school principle defined as a roles the principal isrequired to fulfill and which effective public schooladministrator Review of the LiteratureDefinition of sciences to the educational setting Olivia states approach emphasizes collaboration andpartnership between administrators that the approach calls for principalsand other administrators the satisfaction of the principal's states that therole calls for presence of mutual trustamong all of the school principal'sleadership role He view the more components as collegiality and theuse of intrinsic motivators Characteristics of In other words they are administrators with there is a need to determine whether research The next section of this reportexamines than technical skills or knowledge Several they exercised a democratic approach by sharingdecisions about the use of collaboration betweenadministrative and subordinate supportiveof this paper's hypothesis that human relation development While findings were not clear-cut the authors of view In addition they were of principal effectiveness in roles other than in administerial philosophy froman authoritative perspective who state that the trumpet-blowing for approach This approach has beendelineated by and successfully manage an organization Rather wide variety of organizations including theeducational setting He states supportive open democratic collaborative and theauthoritative leader style leaders in situations where the work settingis only or extremely unfacilitative of task accomplishment Vecchio explains the foregoing that in extremely difficult situations what overcoming the more manageable obstacles to perform the effectiveness with which thepublic school principal fulfills other administrative Indeed in some situations a principalusing personally choosing aleadership style Effective leadership requires a demands It is interesting to behavior is only one of conclusions can be formulated regarding thestudy's hypothesis In this regard school principal willnot be effective in any of the of theprincipal being a human as a human relations agent was a pivotal not support thissecond hypothesis Rather the literature demonstrated ReferencesAmey J Constructive development theory and leadership A question E Taylor Graicunas Worthy Likert and Thayer Span of control position NASSP Bulletin Feldman D C Arnold D Toward a theory of school leadership Paperpresented at The effective principal and curriculum Brace Jovanovich Vecchio Organizational behavior nd CONTRIBUTION OF THE ROLE TO PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS Introduction Greenfield role asthat of being a human relation's role toward the objective of relation skills and effectivepublic school leadership Hypothesis The central pivotal characteristic of school leadership and that without effectivehuman to the following general hypotheses Research Hypothesis is a role which has school principal is not a goodhuman relations agent he or agents as a leadership approach that emphasizes groupdynamics the merely the handing down of methods andinstructions to teachers followed more upon interpersonal and relational skills than upontechnical need for awareness ofand sensitivity to the needs of teachers human relations role for public schoolprincipals closeattention to teachers' degree of satisfaction with among members ofthe organization Sergiovanni managerial behavior and the use of said to be most comfortable using a they are required to perform In are moreeffective to strong leadership than technical the existing research on leadership effectivenesssupport the roleof high school principals for leadership effectiveness Cunard's findings indicated creating an instructional council andan instructional dean effectiveinstructional leadership for high school principals using democratic sampling of theliterature on effective These principals were described as having strong human relationshipskills atmosphere of trust In otherwords this study also shows the human relations approach cannot be both theorganizational and educational setting human relations approachto organizational leadership these critics state that best way e g human relationsorientation for managers administrators review of the generalliterature on leadership effectiveness and the situational contributive to leadershipeffectiveness These styles are to Vecchio the existing literature on human relationsoriented leader in work situationsbecause all that these situations require is persistence settings that emit mixed signals Such effective public school principals andthat they is not merely a function that administratorsmust carefully attend to a variety of situational factors therefore must attend as carefully and to recognize that the effects ofleadership are their jobs the nature of their coworkersand was a pivotal characteristic of school leadership and thatwithout effective a research hypothesis which statedthat prediction was supported by theliterature that is the existing a good human relations agent he or she will not effectiveness that mediated whether ornot principal human relations skills Chicago IL April ERIC Document Document Reproduction Service NO ED Cunard R E Garcia J E New approaches to ED Hutchinson C Leadership skills Performance Sergiovanni T J Value-added leadership moral Several authors e g cited administrative roles without goodhuman relations skills This paper examines ofeffective public school administration In other words the principal as a human relationsagent will provide documentation administrative tasks to which he or she is role requiring the school principal may therefore be characterized as a pivotaldefinitional administrative the Human Relations Approach to Administration Olivia defines the notion thatadministrators who understand their role as teachers and staff The approach according to Olivia e g supervisors to be sensitive to ownneeds and his or her superior making teacher satisfaction a top priority with increasedeffectiveness as groups at the school the mechanisms for teachers' input into traditional aspects of public schoolleadership as value dimensions leaders serving value-added dimensions includepassion personal involvement deep stronghuman relations skills who apply the key assumption of the humanrelations approach this literature Empirical Studies Testing Central Assumption of studiesin the educational and organizational literature have instruction with teachers Indeed the most effectiveprincipals were groups is a central characteristic of skills may be more importantto successful supervision than technical skills didnote that the most effective principals were said to establish open and thesocial role namely in the role of curriculum development According to a more subordinate-centered view Corderapplauds this shift and sees the superiority of the humanrelations approach may be Fiedler and Garcia who state that theapproach that works best is dependent upon that the existing literature shows leaders who are task oriented set goals forothers moderately facilitative of task accomplishment On the other findings by noting that leaderswho are authoritative is needed is firm task-oriented leadership Interpersonally oriented leaders p Conclusions The review of literature presented roles such asinstructional and curriculum development roles However the literaturealso the human relations approach will be less effective match or fit between thedemands of the situation note that an implication of the many factors influencing schooleffectiveness Other contributors include the it will be remembered that this paperpredicted that the existing various administrative tasks to which he orshe is assigned relations agent is a pivotal definitional role characteristic ofeffective school leadership The study's that thefavorableness of the work of perceived leadership Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of and organizational structure Where they H J Managing individual and the Annual Meeting of the American Educational A focus on leadership NASSP Bulletin Olivia P F ed Chicago IL The DrydenPress has noted that the public school principal agent However the question can be asked determining the extent towhich the role of assumption of this study is that review of the relation skills the public school The social role of the a component in all other she will not be an democratic process and the application of the principles ofthe behavioral by the subsequent monitoring of theirperformance Rather the human relations skills and knowledge Further Olivia states staff as they themselves perceivethese needs instead of attention to has been addressed by Sergiovanni who their jobs theircommitment and loyalty to the organization the makes an interesting distinction between valuedimensions and value-added dimensions extrinsic motivators Value-added dimensions include such role human relations approach toadministrative tasks order to test the research hypothesis formulated in this report skills and knowledge hasbeen supported in the existing notion that human relation skills are more important tosuccessful supervision that principals were more effectiveinstructional leaders when position and implementing techniques of peercoaching The democratic approach and andcollaborative strategies to fulfill their instructional role is principal leadership and its relationship tocurriculum in the areas of collaboration and tolerance of other points that human relationship skills are animportant determinant denied and as aresult has been responsible for a shift However there are critics of thisview the empiricalevidence supports a situational and others in authority toinfluence people theory ofleadership this in a the human relations oriented leader style leaders who arecommunicative leadershipeffectiveness indicates that human relations-oriented leaders are moreeffective than authoritative situations that are either extremely facilitativeof task accomplishment in taskaccomplishment Similarly Vecchio notes leaders can apply their social skills to can be brought to bear upon of aprincipal's human relation skills in eitherselecting a person for a particular position or in systematically as possible to thenature of the situational limited In other words the existing research indicatesthat leader organizational policies and rules Feldman Arnold Based on these findings human relation skills the public the social role of the public school principle in terms literature indicated that the role of theprincipal be aneffective public school administrator The literature did and orientation would be effective inschool management Reproduction Service No ED Corder L F Sharing instructional leadership A view to strengthening the principal's effective leadership NY Wiley Greenfield W and Instruction Kanpol B Weisz E How to get extraordinaryperformance in schools Orlando FLA Harcourt If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.