ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTIONS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ...

Catchings-Owens, 2000; Harris, 2011; Sacken, 1996). Simply put, adverse employment actions
against administrators that prove to be “less” than effective are not vastly researched.
Due to this vacuum, research of adverse employment actions bled into other areas of
educational research. Categorization of the literature was not intentionally sought but was a by-
product of extensive queries into “termination,” “dismissal,” and other descriptors. Furthermore,
exploration of adverse employment actions in the business world occurred naturally due to the
similar role that school administrators and business middle management personnel hold. It
should be noted that the emphasis of the literature review remained on the scholarly work
associated with school administrators. In so doing, the review of literature will provide greater
lucidity into realm of adverse employment actions against school administrators.
The chapter, while singularly cohesive, sprawls and touches a vast array of topics. The
chapter will investigate these points of interest in the following order:
administrators.
1. Personal characteristics that lead to adverse employment actions against school
2. Misconduct that leads to adverse employment actions against school administrators.
3. Proper support models for struggling school administrators at risk of adverse
employment actions.
It is the researcher’s intent to broadly paint a view of the school administrator’s experience with
adverse employment actions and what pertinent literature suggests about the past, present, and
future state of this interaction.
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