Abstract
Examines effective strategies used by school administrators in shaping the school culture. Contends that the school administrator or principal is the key person in terms of leadership, school reform, creating a secure school environment, involving stakeholders and implementing visionary leadership. Suggests that transformational principals and administrators are best for multicultural learning communiities.

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"Administrators and School Culture

In education, at the level of the individual school, it is the school administrator or principal who is key in terms of leadership, school reform, creating and maintaining a secure school environment, involving stakeholders of all kinds in the school, and implementing visionary leadership. The purpose of this brief report is to examine effective strategies used by school administrators in shaping the school culture. It will be argued, as Jason (2000) has suggested, that transformational principals and administrators are needed to increase the efficacy of instruction, socialization, and other interaction processes in increasingly multicultural learning communities.

H.S. Williams (2000) contends that the literature on school effectiveness repeatedly refers to the need for strong principal-center ..."

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This paper explains that the pure size of the American government requires a bureaucracy to keep order and to make it as efficient as it historically has been. The paper then describes the duties of public administrators by stressing that he or she must be knowledgeable in many areas in order for the bureaucracy to be successful. The paper also explains that the public administrator also must be willing to take advice from other people so that the ever changing and evolving bureaucratic system runs smoothly.

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"Another limitation of public administration is how to effectively establish positive working relationships among the federal, state and local agencies. Furthermore, many of these agencies have the burden of carrying out policies based on broad, vague statutes with little guidance or framework to make it happen. Jun discusses how several common characteristics of public administration create limitations such as vertical governing, professional dominance, instrumental-technical rationality, reified bureaucracy, complexity and dualistic thinking."

Tags:rationality integrity nonexecutive relationships, minimize opposition

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Discusses developments in American political history, the role a citizen plays in the community and the government, implications for citizen participation in the role of public administrator, and the obligations of public administrators.

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"According to Cooper (1991), most people are more concerned with the rights included in their citizenship status than they are in the responsibilities attached to those rights. When a private citizen chooses to serve as a public administrator, such as a ..."

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This literature review takes a look at the dynamics and characteristics of outstanding leadership skills in school administrators. The paper offers a synthesis of the main findings on the leadership related to past and current trends in leadership literature and the characteristics of leadership and the relationship between power and leadership.

Outline:
Introduction
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
Section 1: Overview of Leadership
Section 2: Characteristics of Leadership
Section 3: Power and Leadership
Summary and Conclusion

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"To define leadership, we first have to understand that leadership is relative i.e. everyone has a different approach to define what is good leadership. There are some who try to differentiate between the tasks and approaches of an individual in terms of being a good leader or a good manager. There are others who concentrate on the necessary characteristics of an individual that make him/her a leader like intellect, risk taking ability, determination, creativity, etc. There are many others who are more focused on the different elements of leadership and believe that these elements are far more important for any researcher to catalog if they are analyzing the dynamics and aspects of leadership especially within academic institutions."

Tags:organizational behavior, management, education institutes, effective leadership

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In this article, the writer maintains that the question of the role of the administrator in special education in the contemporary educational environment is largely predicated on the present reform and policy initiatives and the way that social education is viewed in the 21st century. The writer points out that in the first instance, there has been a radical change with regard to national policies addressing the education of students with disabilities and to special education in general. The writer discusses that the role of the administrator in the 21st century does not only refer to the application and assessment of policy but also refers to problematics of the accessibility and acceptability of special education students in the mainstream of schools. The writer concludes that furthermore, the role of the administrator includes the attainment and maintenance of a high level of knowledge and understanding of the central issues and problems in special education.

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"This again points to the important role that the administrator plays in the regulation and assessment of policy directives with regard to the special education.
"In the light of these challenges, the 21st century administrator should focus on a number of important aspects. These include the following. There is a need for the administrator to implement effective and functional instructional strategies and this requires implementation in the light of the needs and requirements of the student in special education. Central to the role of the modern administrator is the need to improve the standard of achievement of students with disabilities."

Tags:students, disabilities, schooling, standards

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"Statement of the Problem

The proposed research will consist of a descriptive study of the perceptions of public administrators regarding the regulation of cigarette smoking. Not only will public administrators' perceptions be collected, discussed, and interpreted, they will also be examined to determine whether they significantly differ as a function of differences in administrators ages, gender, yearly income, marital status and religion. Further, perceptions will be examined for differences depending upon whether or not the administrator is a smoker.

Problem Background
As noted by Mathre (1994), nicotine (the active ingredient in the tobacco plant) is one of the most toxic and most addictive drugs known to man. Regarding its toxicity, Mathre states that ..."

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This paper examines the role of the database administrator, why they are necessary in organizations and how a database administrator differs from a knowledge manager. The paper examines the various jobs and functions of database management in large organizations.

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"Few companies today are able to exist without an information technology department. Whether a large multinational conglomerate or a small retail establishment nearly all companies rely on computers to some degree. Some companies are highly dependent on computer systems while others use them only for accounting and related tasks. Every organization even the smallest company has at least one person whose job entails making sure that the computer system is up and running or at least knowing who to call when the computer system goes ..."

Tags:database administrator, database administration, knowledge manager

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This paper looks at the evaluation of teachers and administrators and on what factors they should be evaluated. It looks at what their different roles are and explains the different criteria that should be used in their evaluation.

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"Administrators and teachers should be assessed differently because they do different jobs. Teachers teach and they should be assessed on their ability to do so. Most of the assessment should be based on just how effectively they teach, how well they communicate with their students, how well their students learn and how well they do on tests, whether students interact with the teachers and how well they do so, whether the teacher is able to hold the students' interest in what they are teaching."

Tags:administrators, teachers, evaluations

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This paper considers major issues facing database administrators today, including privacy, networking, security, data storage, staff training and staff retention. It includes a technical description of these issues including firewalls protection, data warehousing, need for effective database administration, bounded and unbounded media.

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"It is difficult to imagine how most companies could operate without databases in today's business environment. Indeed most organizations whether private or public profit or non-profit depend on ..."

Tags:database administration, privacy, data storage, networking, security

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This paper describes the career opportunities available to the computer systems administrators in the job market and contains a hypothetical interview with a professional of the field.

Tags:computer, systems, administrator