How do teachers respond to tenure?

Jones, Michael

doi:10.1186/s40172-015-0024-6

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“…Therefore, tenure appeared to be less correlated with proactive behaviors. In some other studies, tenure has also been claimed to have some possible, negative effects on the tendency of school leaders to act proactively, promoting occasionally indifference and uninspired thinking (Aigner, 1993; Jones, 2015). However, according to our data, it seems to be difficult to establish causality between tenure and school leaders’ proactive behavior, because of the correlational nature of our research design.…”

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“…While many studies address the controversial nature of teachers’ tenure (Hoffman, 2016; Kahlenberg, 2016; Loeb et al , 2015) and its impact on their behavior and professional considerations (Jones, 2015), the investigation of the effects of tenure on school leaders is relatively limited, mostly focusing on the relation between school leaders’ turnover, teacher retention and student achievements (Béteille et al , 2012). Although some findings suggest that leadership turnover improves organizational performance (Brown, 1982; Denis and Denis, 1995; Virany et al , 1992), more recent studies show that lack of tenure and the frequent replacement of principals may create instability in schools that can potentially undermine efforts for improvement (Gabriel and Dillon, 2011) and may be harmful for organizational performance (Audas et al , 1999; Azoulay et al , 2010).…”

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To tenure or not to tenure? Some implications for school leaders’ proactive behavior from a comparative perspective

Nir

Ifanti

2016

IJCED

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Purpose Tenure is frequently conceived as a two-edged sword: on the one hand, it provides professional security enabling individuals to initiate hazardous endeavors characterized by uncertainty, risk and potential negative results. On the other hand, professional security may negatively affect motivation, promote indifference and undermine genuine initiatives. The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications tenure has on school leaders’ proactive behavior, evident in their tendency to innovate and initiate creative and authentic endeavors. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaires were administered to 30 non-tenured Greek school principals and 42 tenured Israeli school leaders. School leaders were questioned about their tendency to innovate and act creatively and authentically. Findings Comparisons of groups’ mean scores show that Greek school leaders obtained higher scores when creativity, authenticity and innovativeness are compared between the two groups. These findings are further supported in a discriminant analysis indicating that the two groups’ orientations toward the discriminant function comprising variables, which characterize proactive behavior, are opposite. Originality/value The findings of the authors obtained in this study show that job security, which follows tenure, does not guarantee proactive behavior. Implications are further discussed.

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To tenure or not to tenure? Some implications for school leaders’ proactive behavior from a comparative perspective

Nir

Ifanti

2016

IJCED

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“…One such setting is in tenure for schoolteachers and college professors. Hansen (2009), Jacob (2013) and Jones (2015) have found increases in absenteeism for schoolteachers following tenure. Looking at the setting of college and university professors, some evidence of a fall in publishing with age and following tenure has been found (Holley, 1977; Levin and Stephan, 1991; Faria and McAdam, 2015).…”

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Addressing endogeneity in marginal revenue product estimates of shirking in Major League Baseball

Paulsen

2024

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PurposeWhile much of the literature testing for shirking by professional athletes have used performance metrics, some works have quantified shirking in dollar terms by comparing salary to estimated marginal revenue product (MRP). However, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) approaches to measuring shirking by comparing salary to MRP have an endogeneity problem, as salary and contract length are determined simultaneously. We test for shirking in Major League Baseball (MLB) using an MRP approach, addressing this potential endogeneity.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses instrumental variables regression to address potential endogeneity using MLB season-level player and team data from 2010 to 2017.FindingsUsing OLS regression, the impact of an additional year of guaranteed contract on shirking is estimated at approximately $1m in 2010 US dollars, and the impact of having a long-term contract is estimated at $5m, estimates comparable to those in the literature. Using instrumental variables regression, these impacts increase to $1.6m and over $9m in 2010 dollars.Practical implicationsGiven large, causal shirking estimates, profit maximizing sports organizations should take caution when negotiating long-term contracts. These findings also have important implications for other labor market settings where workers feel job security.Originality/valueTo our knowledge, this is the first work testing for shirking in sports using an MRP approach which uses instrumental variables regression to address potential endogeneity.

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“…A new study by Jones (2015) comes closest to measuring the effect of time to tenure on the teacher workforce. This research uses interstate variation in the time to tenure to assess its relationship to the time teachers spend with students and their parents outside the classroom and the money they spend on classroom materials.…”

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Teacher tenure

Goldhaber¹,

Walch²

2016

Phi Delta Kappan

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Debates over the efficacy of tenure are longstanding but tenure reform is now more prominent in the public eye given recent high-profile legislative battles in states like Ohio and Wisconsin. This focus on tenure also is a natural outgrowth of the large body of research showing that differences between individual teachers can have profound effects on student achievement. Some of the rhetoric in these debates centered on the systems’ inability to fire ineffective tenured teachers. Some contend that the high costs associated with the teacher dismissal process are tantamount to a guarantee that teachers won’t be fired for poor performance. Yet there are counterarguments that weakening tenure will lead to a lower quality teacher workforce. Similarly, others argue that the recent drop in individuals choosing to pursue a career in teaching is related to what’s being called the war against teachers, with tenure reform representing one front in that war (Goldstein, 2014). Our opinion is that direct empirical evidence fails to support the claim that the current wave of reforms affect the teacher labor market or student achievement.

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How do teachers respond to tenure?

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

To tenure or not to tenure? Some implications for school leaders’ proactive behavior from a comparative perspective

To tenure or not to tenure? Some implications for school leaders’ proactive behavior from a comparative perspective

Addressing endogeneity in marginal revenue product estimates of shirking in Major League Baseball

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