Crisis leadership
Developing and validating a scale for school principals’ crisis management in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21784129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rima’a Da’as (0000-0002-1625-1934), Rima'a Da'as (0000-0001-5939-8234, corresponding author), Mowafaq Qadach (0000-0002-7389-0433), Chen Schechter (0000-0002-1174-4633) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Management Administration & Leadership (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-1432 • E-ISSN: 1741-1440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17411432251387306 |
| OpenAlex | W4415285992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 78 |
In an era of uncertainty and frequent crises, understanding how school principals lead effectively under adversity has become increasingly important for ensuring educational continuity and resilience. This quantitative study aimed to develop and validate a new scale for school principals’ management during a crisis, with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the scale items to examine factorial validity. Three samples from Israel's educational system were used: the first included 50 principals (pilot study), the second, 130 principals, and the third, 95 principals and 954 teachers. The research was conducted from February 2022 to June 2024. Results yielded a developed (second-order) scale based on five main factors (32 items) influencing school-management during a crisis: (1) promotion of internal and external learning processes; (2) inclusion and support of students, parents, and the community; (3) sustaining principal's resilience; (4) enabling systems management; and (5) collaboration with external organizations and principals’ peers. The crisis-management scale was positively related to principals’ cognitive complexity and systems thinking, organizational resilience, and teachers’ ability to cope with crises. This scale holds both theoretical and practical significance in addressing schools’ effective management during times of crisis, enabling schools to prepare practical strategies for crisis situations based on its various dimensions
Confirmatory factor analysis · Crisis management · Crisis response · Exploratory factor analysis · Exploratory research · Disaster Management and Resilience
RWG
School leadership in times of crisis
Covid-19, school closures, and child poverty
School leadership during a pandemic
Principals and stress
Organizational resilience
Managerial coping with organizational change
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Organizational Response to Adversity
Covid-19 – school leadership in crisis?
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
Coping
Testing Structural Equation Models
Unravelling the business of educational leaders in times of uncertainty
School leaders’ self-efficacy and its impact on innovation
‘People miss people’
Leading and supporting
Covid 19 – school leadership in disruptive times
The Interplay of News Frames on Cognitive Complexity
The role of schools in helping communities copes with earthquake disasters
The Rise of Resilience in Education in Emergencies
Leadership for school mindfulness
A New Incremental Fit Index for General Structural Equation Models
Urban School Principals and Their Role as Multicultural Leaders
Leading Schools and Districts in Times of Crisis
Leading online learning during a pandemic and beyond
Crisis leadership
Conceptualising principal resilience
The best of times, the worst of times
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |