THE PRINCIPAL AS A CLIMATE FACTOR IN AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS: A REVIEW OF STUDIES

This article surveys the four studies which examine principal behaviour as a factor of organizational climate in Australian primary schools, and which relates those factors to curriculum changes in the school. The survey reveals that while high principal supportiveness and low operations emphasis were related to innovativeness in general, and to specific examples of curriculum implementation, one study reports that high operations emphasis was related to a particular curriculum adoption. It is concluded that either one of the principal behaviours defined may be required depending upon the task to be accomplished in the school.