An Examination Of The Relationship Between Empowerment And Organizational Commitment,
2010
Fort Hays State University
An Examination Of The Relationship Between Empowerment And Organizational Commitment, Gholamreza Jandaghi, Reza Borghei, Hasan Matin, Nasrin Dastani
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
A rapidly changing environment threatens the survival of many organizations. The global economy propelled by booming regional economies, new media and information technology, universal consumer cultures, emerging global standards, and opportunities for corporate cost-sharing, has dramatically changed the environment in which organizations exist today (Ohema,1998,p.17). The survival of many organizations is threatened, in part, by reluctance to adapt to the changing environment. “Ecology evolutionary theory suggests that uncertain, volatile environments will support diverse organizational forms and that the apparent winners will fluctuate from time to time as conditions change” ( Hannan and Freeman, 1989, p.27).
Book Review – “Leadership And The One Minute Manager”,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Book Review – “Leadership And The One Minute Manager”, M.S. Rao
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Today I read a book titled ‘Leadership and the One Minute Manager’ by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi (Harper Collins Publishers). It took four hours for me to read this book. It has valuable takeaways for all and especially for managers and leaders.
Dangerous Liaisons: Non-Western Religious Minority Groups And American Public Education,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Dangerous Liaisons: Non-Western Religious Minority Groups And American Public Education, Steve Charbonneau
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Public education and so many institutions charged with serving the public are struggling to serve cultural minority groups who see the world and interact with it in ways quite foreign to mainstream America. A lack of knowledge, on the part of public institutions, has led to the further alienation of certain minority subgroups and has made the public institutions that serve them ineffective. Increasing institutional knowledge of cultural minority groups is one of the critical steps American pubic educators must take towards cultural competency (Hoffman, 2004).
Exploring Unique Dimensions Of Caring,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Exploring Unique Dimensions Of Caring, Len Austin
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This paper seeks to increase the growing body of knowledge relative to the “accompanying characteristics” or attendant attributes of caring (submissiveness, sacrifice, the ability to individualize, and being able to anticipate the needs of others). It also offers are four unique philosophical underpinnings of the attribute of caring. These dimensions include the reciprocal nature of caring, the hierarchical nature of caring, the requirement to be pro-active in caring, and being knowledgeable about the changing timetable of caring in people’s lives. In addition, an example of one university’s efforts to integrate caring across the curriculum is examined.
Implementing An Assessment Program: A Faculty Member’S Perspective,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Implementing An Assessment Program: A Faculty Member’S Perspective, Robert Becker
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
In 1999, after several exploratory meetings, the college administration established an ad-hoc interdisciplinary assessment committee to begin a conversation about what students were taught and how faculty knew what was learned and what was not. At the first meeting of this committee, composed of representatives of the college’s seventeen teaching departments, the library, student affairs, institutional planning, research, and assessment, and academic affairs, several impediments to a formalized college-wide assessment initiative immediately became apparent. While a culture of informal assessment already existed as instructors daily grappled with effectively teaching their students, the notion of a widespread institutionalized plan was alien. …
Leadership Dispositions: What Are They And Are They Essential To Good Leadership,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Leadership Dispositions: What Are They And Are They Essential To Good Leadership, Carroll Helm
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
George Orwell once wrote an intriguing and acclaimed short-story called The Shooting of an Elephant. The story takes place in the mid 1930’s in Moulmein, lower Burma. Orwell was a young police officer in the province that was still under British colonial rule. He describes in lurid detail how is pressured into killing a tame elephant that had escaped his trainer’s chains and was enjoying a day of freedom. Unfortunately, the elephant ravages a local market and a man is killed by the elephant. Over 2,000 Burmese were watching and waiting to see what he would do. What happens next …
Perceived Efficacy Of Marriage Counseling In Tertiary Institutions: A Case Study Of Tai Solarin University Of Education, Ijebu Ode,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Perceived Efficacy Of Marriage Counseling In Tertiary Institutions: A Case Study Of Tai Solarin University Of Education, Ijebu Ode, J.T.B. Oluwatimilehin
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
It has long been recognized that the major causes of difficulties of students are anxieties and psychological stresses (Adeyemo, 2000; Owuamanam, 2000; and Akinleye, 2003). According to Adeyemo (2000), concern over studies, unusual physical complaint and difficulties with interpersonal relationship have often led to successful or attempted suicide among students. Students in Nigeria tertiary institutions have a great need for guidance and counseling. This assertion is largely informed by the cultural conflict between the Western and African values whereby students are engaged in developing both occupational and social identities. This seems to support the view of Owuamanam (2000)who reported that …
Teachers, Never Stop Learning Journal Article For Academic Leadership,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Teachers, Never Stop Learning Journal Article For Academic Leadership, Luanne Schnase
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Teachers, facilitators, and instructors must understand their students in order to affect learning. Understanding who learners are and how they develop cognitively, emotionally, and intellectually will help instructors create learning opportunities which will enhance student knowledge. The same is true when it is the teacher who becomes the student. Whether the readers of this article are teachers, administrators, or professional development providers, adults must understand how adults learn, and teachers should allow themselves the opportunity to remember what it is like to be a learner (Brookfield, 1995).
A Model Of Organisational Leadership Development Informing Succession Development: Elements And Practices,
2010
Fort Hays State University
A Model Of Organisational Leadership Development Informing Succession Development: Elements And Practices, Glenys Drew, Lisa Ehrich
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The Lantern model has been developed in response to a perceived need to offer an integrated, systematic approach to organisational and succession leadership development. The model offers an organising framework for considering succession leadership development in a strategic, integrated way. The concept is based on organisational development and leadership literature which sees leadership development not as a series of ‘tacked on’ activities but as an organic ‘whole of organisation’ approach fostering the relevant knowledge, skills and understandings which support and ‘grow’ leaders as the organisation goes about its business. This paper explores how such an ideal might happen, and it …
Book Review: Challenges Of Sustainable Democracy In Nigeria. Ibadan: John Archer,
2010
University of Ilorin
Book Review: Challenges Of Sustainable Democracy In Nigeria. Ibadan: John Archer, Segun Oshewolo
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Ojo’s edited book accommodates brilliant essays that focus analytically on the hurdles to Nigeria’s democratization process. The book takes the readers into an interesting, but academically cogent, theme, Nigeria’s democratization process: the odds and socio-politically expedient coping strategies. The foreword, excellently written by a Nigerian professor of political science, J. A.A. Ayoade, will no doubt ignite readers’ interest in the book. Apart from projecting Nigeria as a continental and global force, which necessarily elicits great enthusiasm from democracy observers locally and internationally, it also, precisely and concisely, chronicles Nigeria’s tortuous march to democratization. In the preface of this twenty-five chapter …
Fostering Equity & Diversity In Faculty Recruitment,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Fostering Equity & Diversity In Faculty Recruitment, Janet Fleetwood, Nancy Aebersold
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Participating in a search for a new faculty member, whether as a search committee member, search committee chairperson, department chairperson, or dean, poses unique challenges for those in academics. Though we may be an expert in conducting rigorous research, a prolific writer, or a gifted “sage on the stage” in the classroom, few of us are also experts in academic recruiting. All too frequently we bumble through the search process, hoping fervently that the person we ultimately hire – the person who will likely be our colleague for decades – is someone who will turn out to be a serious …
Implicit Models Of School Improvement: A Mixed Method Analysis,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Implicit Models Of School Improvement: A Mixed Method Analysis, Robert Griffore, Lillian Phenice, John Schweitzer, Robert Green
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
There is a persistent belief that public schools are profoundly in need of improvement (Berliner & Biddle, 1995). Given substantial research on teaching literature (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2003; Hertling, 2000), it is not clear why more progress has not been made. Perhaps an answer may be found in the complexity of the educational literature, which provides a confused map toward accomplishing school improvement. Educational leaders are left in the position of relying on either imprecisely formulated or idiosyncratic and implicit models of school improvement without clear guidelines to follow for specific contexts. Models appear as ex post facto, …
Perceptions Of Differences In Components Of Faculty Development: Implications For Higher Education,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Perceptions Of Differences In Components Of Faculty Development: Implications For Higher Education, Thomas Cox, Mary Mayorga
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
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Teacher Education In Nigeria: Past, Present And Future Challenges.,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Teacher Education In Nigeria: Past, Present And Future Challenges., Israel Osokoya
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The history of western education in Nigeria was intimately bound up with the history of western education in Europe. During and after the Dark Ages in Europe, the church dominated the business of education and this had a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of people not only in Europe and America but also in the British colonial territories of Asia and Africa. Historically, the British imperial ambition and effective occupation of Nigeria dated back to the second half of the 19th century even though some Europeans including British traders had assumed trading activities with the people in the coastal …
The Pedagogy Of Creative Arts Through Appropriate Strategies,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Pedagogy Of Creative Arts Through Appropriate Strategies, Banjo Abiodun
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Art education remains an academic illusion until, the return of Onabolu in 1922 to Nigeria after his training abroad. Onabolu, a man highly respected by both his country and Europeans alike, officially introduced formal art teaching to Lagos schools.1 He equally used his portraiture to immortalize Nigerian men, who took part in the Africa struggle.2
Table Of Contents - Winter 2010,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Table Of Contents - Winter 2010, Fort Hays State University College Of Education
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Academic Leadership Journal Winter 2010 table of contents
A Technologically Based Approach To Providing Quality Feedback To Students: A Paradigm Shift For The 21st Century,
2010
Fort Hays State University
A Technologically Based Approach To Providing Quality Feedback To Students: A Paradigm Shift For The 21st Century, Wade Fish, Rick Lumadue
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This article will begin with a focus on the importance of providing quality feedback. Faculty providing constructive and detailed feedback serves as an important component for effective student learning and is beneficial towards student achievement (Debuse, Lawley, & Shibl, 2007; Higgins, Hartley, & Skelton, 2002). According to Wolsey (2008), the desired outcome of feedback is to provide communication between instructor and student, which promotes learning. Quality feedback is defined as providing students with clear assessment criteria that is not only timely, but encourages further learning (Brown & Glover, 2006).
A True Underdog: The Contributions Of Professor D. Barry Lumsden To Teacher Development In Higher Education,
2010
Fort Hays State University
A True Underdog: The Contributions Of Professor D. Barry Lumsden To Teacher Development In Higher Education, Rick Lumadue
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
People love stories about real-life underdogs who overcome insurmountable odds to achieve success. This article chronicles one such underdog in the truest sense of the word. As one of the privileged students to have had the opportunity to study under Dr. Lumsden, this paper is written as a tribute to the contributions of D. Barry Lumsden to the contemporary practice of Higher Education. Lumsden has developed numerous teachers in the field of higher education. The information for this paper was obtained through personal interviews with Lumsden, correspondence with his former students and firsthand experiences as his student. Lumsden and I …
A Survey On The Level Of Skills Needed And The Skills Possessed By The Youths Of The Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria For Self Reliance,
2010
Fort Hays State University
A Survey On The Level Of Skills Needed And The Skills Possessed By The Youths Of The Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria For Self Reliance, D.O. Arubayi
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
For any nation to be economically viable, the quality of skills possessed by its members will determine the success of the nation’s economy. The Niger Delta Region covers about 70,000 square kilometers and is noted for its peculiar and difficult terrain. The whole area is transversed and crisscrossed by a large number of rivulets streams, canals, and creeks. The people of the Niger Delta have continued to live with a lot of environmental problems from health hazards due to lack of safe water and available land. Despite the rich resources, the Niger Delta Region is characterized by the most crushing …
Conflict In The Community College Classroom.,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Conflict In The Community College Classroom., Will Carpenter
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Violence and aggression in the community college classroom is something overlooked by many. “In a given month, 11 percent of all students reported having something stolen, 1.3 percent of all students reported being physically assaulted, and 12 percent of all teachers reported having something stolen, 5 percent of these thefts occurring by way of force, weapons, or threats” (Barton, 1998). At this level of education, it is typically assumed that students will act professionally and know how to control anger and situations of conflict. On the contrary, at this level, students may be under more stress than elementary and/or secondary …
