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Local School Leaders in Greece:

Local School Leaders in Greece:. Their role and the main sources of their job stress by Athanassios LAINAS University of Ioannina, GREECE. Administration of school education in Greece. Centralisation Concentration of power Nationwide uniformity Four administrative levels:

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Local School Leaders in Greece:

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  1. Local School Leaders in Greece: Their role and the main sources of their job stress by Athanassios LAINAS University of Ioannina, GREECE

  2. Administration of school education in Greece • Centralisation • Concentration of power • Nationwide uniformity • Four administrative levels: • National / central • Regional • Local / prefectural • School unit

  3. Administration of school education at local level in Greece • Distinct administrative units for: • Primary education • Secondary education • Directorate of Education • Bureau of Education • Director of Education • Director of Bureau of Education

  4. The role of the local Director of Education in Greece • Involvement in operational decisions mainly • Implementation of national educational policy • Support the smooth operation of the local school system resource management personnel management trouble – shooter • Formal authority – little power for shaping the local system

  5. Job stress in educational administration • Increasing pressures • Job stress / sources of stress – stressors • Mainly focus on teachers job stress • Research on headteachers job stress • Mainly in USA research for Superintendents job stress

  6. The research project • May 2002 • Survey / questionnaire / five sections • All 454 Directors of Education • Rate of response 78.85% (N=357) • What the general level of job stress • Which the main sources of job stress

  7. Research findings • General level of job stress • Main sources of job stress

  8. The general level of the job stress reported • The job stress intensity index M = 1.96 (S.D. = .993) • The general level of job stress index M = 1.79 (S.D. = .639) • Correlation: r = .459 (p = .01)

  9. Main sources of job stress for the Directors of Education

  10. Fields of sources of job stress • The shortage of human and financial resources • Difficulaties related to educational policies and reforms • The nature and the characteristics of their work • Time restrictions and tensions • Relations with people • Issues related to career

  11. Ρractical implications • Rationalization of the administrative system • Increase in financial and human resources • Pre-service and in-service training • Stress – management courses

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