ADMINISTRATIVE CANDIDACY: A PROCESS OF NEW ROLE LEARNING—PART 2

Part One of this initial report of a longitudinal study of the organizational socialization of educational administrators offered an analysis of data ordered by the GASing construct and the two related concepts of anticipatory socialization and interpersonal orientation. The data to be analyzed here are ordered using the concepts of situational adjustment and organizational space. A theoretical model interrelating major individual and organizational variables influencing the socialization of administrators during the candidacy portion of their career then builds upon the hypotheses proposed in Part One and Part Two. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the implications these data portend for both training programs and public school systems, calling special attention to the uniqueness of the long‐term serial character of the socialization of educators as an occupational group.