Secondary school vice-principals: Commitment, challenge, efficacy and synchrony

Secondary school vice-principals: Commitment, challenge, efficacy and synchrony

• Kwan, Paula Yu Kwong Dept of Educational Administration and Policy, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Walker, Allan Dept of Educational Administration and Policy, Chinese University of Hong Kong

British Educational Research Journal, 36(4), 531-548, 2010

Routledge

2010

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers

Assistant School Principals Job Satisfaction Research Educational Leadership High Schools -- Administration Ambition Happiness

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

The study sought to investigate Hong Kong secondary school vice-principals' job facets leading to overall job satisfaction, and to differentiate the satisfaction of vice-principals of different career orientations and gender groups. The findings indicated that there are four main facets of satisfaction, in rank order of influence on overall satisfaction, 'professional commitment', 'level of personal challenge', 'sense of efficacy' and 'sense of synchrony'. The study also found that vice-principals who aspired to the principalship exhibited a higher degree of professional commitment, a stronger sense of efficacy, and experienced lower levels of stress associated with personal challenge than vice-principals who did not aspire to a principalship.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 01411926

• 10.1080/01411920903018026

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/eb486ab3

2010-12-24