This study examined teachers' perceptions of the use of power tactics by elementary principals. Elementary teachers (N = 297) in 50 schools in North Dakota and Minnesota reported on the use of power tactics by their principals, using an instrument developed to measure the use of the power strategies of assertiveness, sanctions, ingratiation, rationality, and exchange by school principals. Teachers perceived their principals to use rationality and ingratiation most often and sanctions least often to influence the teachers' behavior.
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