...Emanuel Tamir; Khalid Arar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine considerations employed in decision-making processes by Israeli high school leaders, when implementing the “Courage to Change” reform. The reform gave schools large supplementary resources in the form of “weekly instruction...

...Muhammad Hanif Othman; Noorihsan Mohamad; Mohd Nizam Barom Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical model that integrates various dimensional factors which influence decision-making process of class selection and enrolment, analysing different angles of this process...

... cues and educational facilities” as the most important pull motivational factor and the institution itself as the reference that has the most significant influence on student decision making. Research limitations/implications This study was conducted on students who were surveyed following...

... that define a transformational leader, except when it comes to nepotism and to the lower level employees who are not usually invited to share in the decision-making process. He was able to successfully challenge the process, inspire and motivate all the campus’s employees. However, in order to generalize...

... in the original searches. Searches of electronic and on-line databases using thesaurus search terms were carried out in a logical and systematic way, and tracked during the search process. The searches required the authors to identify thesaurus terms (choose, choice, choosing, decision making, consumer behaviour...

...Stephanie Chitpin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework (OKGF) in the development and maintenance of the Canadian Principal Learning Network (CPLN) to advance principals’ knowledge and skills in the area of decision making. First, the paper...

...Jasmin‐Olga Sarafidou; Georgios Chatziioannidis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine teacher involvement in different domains of decision making in Greek primary schools and explore associations with school and teacher variables. Design/methodology/approach A survey employing self...

... Educational administration Decision making Transparency Conflict management As educational systems have undergone processes of democratization and decentralization, public demand has risen for greater transparency so that these systems can be monitored and scrutinized. However, in the literature...

...@ulster.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Marketing Branding Advertising Higher education Emotion Decision making Students United Kingdom The UK Higher Education sector is an important part of the economy both in terms of its contribution to knowledge through graduate...

...Wayne K. Hoy; C. John Tarter Purpose The aim of this article is to examine the empirical literature on irrationality and identify a set of concepts to help administrators cope with irrationality in decision making. Design/methodology/approach This analysis is a synthesis of the selected...

...Wayne K. Hoy; C.J. Tarter Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the research literature on decision making and identify and develop a set of heuristics that work for school decision makers. Design/methodology/approach This analysis is a synthesis of the research on decision‐making...

... biographical information and indicated both in writing and orally which of the three decision trees allowed them best to express their opinion. Factors that are thought by some researchers to influence decision‐making processes were chosen as independent variables. These included seniority at work...

...Anna Saiti; Maria Eliophotou‐Menon Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the decision‐making process in the Greek education system, as an indicator of the design and implementation of educational policy. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a case study approach to identify...

..., and the Communication Satisfaction Questionnaire. Findings The communication audits uncovered six major clusters of communication problems that require management's attention. These problems vary from a lack of participation in decision making to employees feeling under appreciated. While some of these problems...

...Christa Boske Purpose The purpose of this study is to increase awareness of the interactions among school leadership standards, cultural competence, and decision‐making practices for chief school executives. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective, 1,087 chief school executives...

...Felix Maringe; Steve Carter Purpose International students' HE decision making is a high stakes process. There is an insufficient evidence base that would aid university level strategic planning in areas of recruitment from the African continent and in supporting its students to maximise...

... articles appearing in the international journals from 1996 to 2005 are gathered and analyzed so that the following three questions can be answered: “What kind of decision problems were paid most attention to?”; “Were the multiple criteria decision‐making techniques prevalently adopted?”; and “What...

...José María Cubillo; Joaquín Sánchez; Julio Cerviño Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical model that integrates the different groups of factors which influence the decision‐making process of international students, analysing different dimensions of this process...

... 2006 Craig Zimitat can be contacted at C.Zimitat@griffith.edu.au Decision making Higher education Overseas students Taiwan Australia The provision of educational services to students across national borders has been a major growth industry over the last 30 years. In 2004...

... education Social reform Decision making Irish universities have, until recently, operated on a relatively small‐scale with very modest budgets. Largely state funded with augmentation from private sources for specific projects, they have been demonstrably effective, enjoying a high degree...