Vice-principalship in Hong Kong: Aspirations, competencies, and satisfaction

Vice-principalship in Hong Kong: Aspirations, competencies, and satisfaction

• Kwan, Paula Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Walker, Allan Chinese University of Hong Kong

School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 19(1), 73-97, 2008

Routledge

2008

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RH Supervisors, School Principals & Administrators
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers

Career Planning Job Satisfaction Foreign Countries Assistant Principals Competence Secondary Schools Administrator Qualifications Administrator Attitudes Occupational Aspiration Administrator Role Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

This article details a large-scale study of vice-principals in Hong Kong secondary schools. The study aimed to examine the core competency areas that pertain to the work of vice-principals and the way in which vice-principals perceive these areas to relate to school success. It also examined the factors that affect their level of job satisfaction, and differentiated these factors according to whether they did or did not aspire to principalship. The findings indicate that competency gaps, if large enough, can affect the level of job satisfaction of vice-principals and that the impact of these gaps varies according to career orientation. The results show that vice-principals who aspire to be a principal are more satisfied in their jobs than their less ambitious colleagues; and that the effect of these gaps on job satisfaction differs between the two groups. The implications of the findings for the future supply of principals and leader development are expounded.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 09243453

• 10.1080/09243450701856549

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/4abbb961

2010-11-24