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A PROFILE OF SELECTED FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO JOB STABILITY AS PERCEIVED BY NEBRASKA PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the perceptions of Nebraska public school superintendents with respect to stability in their current professional position. Specifically, the study sought to determine if there were identifiable common factors which were related to job stability for public school superintendents in Nebraska. The study was also designed to determine if there was a relationship between selected job stability factors and selected demographic characteristics. Comparisons were made between superintendents with five or more and four or less years of service in their current positions. The setting for this study included all Nebraska public school districts employing a superintendent during the 1980-81 school year. The public school districts of Nebraska are primarily rural in nature. Of the 1,091 school districts operating in Nebraska during 1980-81, only 328 employed a superintendent. The remaining districts in the state were small, rural schools offering instruction only from grades K-8, K-6, or less. A review of selected literature seemed to suggest that job stability factors for public school superintendents should include (1)Board-Superintendent Relations, (2)Personal Satisfaction With the Superintendency, (3)Workload, (4)Personal Economic Satisfaction, (5)Position Status, (6)Community Relations, (7)Superintendent-Staff Relations, and (8)Family Need Satisfaction. From the demographic information, the following description of a Nebraska public school superintendent was developed: A typical Nebraska public school superintendent is employed in a Class II or III district, is married, is between forty-one and fifty years of age, is employed in a rural district of 500 students or less, has a one year contract of employment, resides in the south central sector of Nebraska, has children attending some type of school, is serving in his first or second superintendency, and holds a Specialist degree. The study provided information to support the following summary of selected conclusions: (1)Superintendents with five or more years of service in their current position appear to place slightly more importance upon the selected job stability factors as compared to those with four or less years of service in their current position. (2)There appears to be a significantly greater importance placed upon the selected job stability factors by those superintendents with twenty or more years of service in their current positions as compared to those with less than twenty years of service in their current position. (3)Superintendents appear to consider relations with staff members, board members, and community members of a higher priority than other job stability factors. (4)Superintendents that had attained a doctoral degree and with five or more years of service placed greater importance upon the selected job stability factors than did other superintendents. (5)The age of a superintendent appeared to have no relationship to perceptions of job stability factors. (6)Family Need satisfaction appeared to be an important job stability factor for all superintendents. (7)As compared to the other job stability factors, personal economic satisfaction appeared to be of lower priority for superintendents.
Subject Area
School administration
Recommended Citation
LANGE, RAYMOND CHARLES, "A PROFILE OF SELECTED FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO JOB STABILITY AS PERCEIVED BY NEBRASKA PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS" (1981). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8118169.
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