Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Polka, Walter S., 1945-

Title The dark side of educational leadership : superintendents and the professional victim syndrome / Walter S. Polka and Peter R. Litchka
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, ©2008

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages)
Contents FOREWORD: THE LEADER AS VICTIM; PREFACE; Ch01. VICTIMS; Ch02. HELP WANTED; Ch03. MOBBING; Ch04. THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING TO ME; Ch05. BEYOND THE GLASS CEILING; Ch06. I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS; Ch07. YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING; Ch08. YOU NEVER KNOW; Ch09. A BROKEN HEART FOREVER; Ch10. FAMILY MATTERS; Ch11. NO SUPERINTENDENT LEFT BEHIND; Ch12. COMPASS: A SURVIVAL GUIDE; APPENDIX: THE PROFESSIONAL VICTIM STUDY (2006); REFERENCES
Summary Annotation "A resource to institutions of higher education and various state and national superintendent organizations and agencies, The Dark Side of Educational Leadership provides insights into specific resiliency behaviors that contribute to superintendents' abilities to overcome the trauma associated with being a professional victim. Specifically illuminating those issues that contribute most often to the victimization of superintendents. Polka and Litchka identify resiliency factors of most significance to superintendents in dealing with the professional victim syndrome, helping superintendents to better prepare for the professional victim syndrome during their professional career."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203)
Notes Print version record
Subject School superintendents -- United States.
School superintendents -- United States -- Attitudes
School management and organization -- United States
Educational leadership -- United States
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Educational leadership
School management and organization
School superintendents
School superintendents -- Attitudes
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Litchka, Peter R., 1950-
ISBN 9781578868827
1578868823