Educational Quest- An International Journal of Education and Applied Social Sciences
Year : 2017, Volume : 8, Issue : 3
First page : ( 437) Last page : ( 446)
Print ISSN : 0976-7258. Online ISSN : 2230-7311.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2230-7311.2017.00090.3

Teacher Stress in Relation to Creative Management, Institutional Performance and Gender of College Principals in Teacher Education Institutions

Kauts Amit*, Sikand Deepa

Department of Education, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India

*Corresponding author: kautsamit@gmail.com

Online published on 8 December, 2017.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to study the teacher stress in relation to creative management and institutional performance in teacher education institutions. In order to conduct present study 450 teacher educators with doctorate degree and without doctorate degrees, with different levels of experience were selected from 45 selected colleges of education taking 10 teachers from each institution were selected randomly. Institutional Performance Scale & Creative Management Scale prepared by the investigator and Teacher Stress Questionnarie (Otto (1983) and Adapted by Max Smith and Sid) were used as tools for the present study. The findings of the study revealed that in good performing institutions, teacher educators experience significantly less stress related to students and physical conditions, time pressure and lack of reward and recognition except conflicts than their counterparts in poor performing institutions. Teacher educators of the colleges with female principals were more stressed due to conflict, students & physical conditions and lack of reward & recognition except time pressure than those in the institutions with male principals. Female principals of institutions with poor performance has significantly higher teacher stress than colleges with male principals of institutions with good performance, colleges with male principals of institutions with poor performance and colleges with female principals of institution with good performance. There is a negative relationship between creative management and teacher stress.

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Keywords

Teacher stress, creative management, institutional performance.

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