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“If You Could Ball You Were On The Court”: Race, Team, And Culture In High School Boys’ Basketball, Alexander Deeb
“If You Could Ball You Were On The Court”: Race, Team, And Culture In High School Boys’ Basketball, Alexander Deeb
Doctoral Dissertations
There is a substantial body of research examining the experiences of Black collegiate student athletes at primarily White universities. Many studies, however, have privileged exploring the experiences of college athletes over high school athletes. The purpose of the current study was to explore the role of race in the context of high school boys’ basketball by investigating whether and how race manifests as part of team dynamics and culture. An additional purpose of the current study was to examine high school boys’ basketball players’ understandings of and experiences with race, particularly within the context of sport. Interpretive phenomenological interviews were …
A Grounded Theoretical Analysis Of Team Resilience In The Us Army, Megan L. Dove-Steinkamp
A Grounded Theoretical Analysis Of Team Resilience In The Us Army, Megan L. Dove-Steinkamp
Doctoral Dissertations
In order to develop a scientific understanding of team resilience, the three primary goals of the current research effort were to (1) summarize the research literature on resilience in and of small groups and systems, (2) articulate a framework to direct the synthesis of existing and future resilience-related research, and (3) construct a substantive theory of team resilience. This exploratory research used a grounded theory approach to explore resilience phenomena experienced by small unit members in the US Army. Participants were sampled from military occupational specialties within Combat Arms, as classified by the US Army Regimental System, and included members …
Can Everyone Be A Leader? A Multi-Contextual Study Of Leadership, Xueting Jiang
Can Everyone Be A Leader? A Multi-Contextual Study Of Leadership, Xueting Jiang
Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation is composed of three independent but interrelated essays. Each essay focuses on a specific perspective to study leadership at the individual level or at the team level and beyond. My first essay, Consequences of Leader Self-Efficacy Dissimilarity in Self-managing Teams, looks at the impacts of leader self-efficacy dissimilarity upon shared leadership and the consequent effects on team effectiveness in self-managing teams. My second essay, A Longitudinal Study on Leadership Identification in Self-managing Teams, explains why leadership structures may vary in self-managing teams and how individuals develop their leadership roles in a non-hierarchical organizational context. My third …