Job Desirability of the High School Principalship: A Job Choice Theory Perspective

By D. Pounder, Randall J. Merrill. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• How Graduate-Level Preparation Influences the Effectiveness of School Leaders: A Comparison of the Outcomes of Exemplary and Conventional Leadership Preparation Programs for Principals (2011, background): “…that career intentions are strongly predictive of subsequent career advancement and are influenced by individuals’ perceived efficacy and beliefs about the position (Ajzen, 1991), and on other related research on beliefs about the principalship and career aspirations (Pounder & Merrill, 2001).”
• Organizational attractiveness and prospective applicants' intentions to apply (2011, background): “initial theoretical guidelines for understanding job choice, considerable research has focused on the individual applicant ( Pounder and Merril, 2001”
• Fear, the School Organization, and Teacher Evaluation (2008, background): “Pounder and Merrill (2001), for example, documented several complex factors in the principalship, including “bureaucracy, insensitive bureaucrats, red tape, politics, legislative demands (and) regulations” (Lyons, 1999, cited in Pounder & Merrill, 2001, p. 36).”
• New Teachers' Experiences of Hiring: Late, Rushed, and Information-Poor (2006, methodology): “Applied to education, this theory suggests that teachers’ job choices might be heavily influenced by “the fit between a person’s psycho-social needs and the organizational climate of a school or district” (Pounder & Merrill, 2001, p. 289).”
• Effects of support on stress and burnout in school principals (2016, background): “Pounder and Merrill (2001) argue that unbundling or repackaging the job responsibilities with an administrative team that shares the leadership of the school could be a solution.”
• The Pain Outweighs the Gain: Why Teachers Don't Want to Become Principals (2005, background): “…number of new principals is likely to be drawn (Enwall & Fabal, 1998; ERS, 1998), fewer and fewer of them now seem willing to seek administrative positions (Cooley & Shen, 1999; ERS, 1998; Hammond et al., 2001; Kerrins, Johnstone, & Cushing, 2001; Pounder & Merrill, 2001a; Tracy & Weaver, 2000).”
• Principals and stress: Few coping strategies for abundant stressors (2018, background): “Due to increasing job demands (Catano and Stronge, 2006; Cushing et al., 2003; Howley et al., 2005; Pounder and Merrill, 2001; Rayfield and Diamantes, 2003; Oplatka, 2017), principals do not remain in their positions for a long time.”
• School Leadership Stability, Principal Moves, and Departures: Evidence From Missouri (2010, background): “Pounder and Merrill (2001) applied job choice theory to the career decisions of potential aspiring high school principals, adopting frameworks from personnel management literature.”