#LEADERSHIP CONTEXTS PROFESSIONAL#
By this understanding, leadership necessitates a professional and ethical responsibility to colleagues within the workplace. The most agreed-upon definition of a leader is a person who inspires a group of people to achieve a common goal ( Sinek, 2009 Waniganayake, Cheeseman, Fenech, Hadley, & Shepherd, 2012). In early childhood education, the terms ‘leadership’ and ‘management’ are often used interchangeably according to the context in which the leader is situated. The purpose of this paper is to report on a small qualitative study that explored ways that early childhood educators’ dissatisfaction with leadership was connected with their overall job satisfaction. The evidence these data provide of regulatory breaches, discrimination and bullying highlight the critical need for action by employers, regulatory authorities and unions to better support educators and their leaders in their work environments. Findings revealed all of Oplatka’s elements of ‘dark side’ leadership practices and ideologies at work, with the addition of two new types of ‘dark side’ leadership practices – ‘acts of courage’ and ‘meat in the sandwich’. Purposeful sampling was used to select educators who had expressed dissatisfaction with leaders on a Facebook forum for early childhood educators. In this article we report on a small qualitative study completed in 2017, investigating 12 educators’ experiences of what could be described as ‘dark side’ leadership practices. It could be suggested that persistent workforce problems in the early childhood (EC) field in Australia – such as job satisfaction and turnover may be related to ineffective leadership practices, low pay and lack of professional acknowledgement.
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